On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:24:13 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 06/05/16 03:11: > > On Saturday 04 June 2016 17:49:02 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote on 06/04/16 23:02: > >>> On Saturday 04 June 2016 16:12:30 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >>>> I'm glad it worked for you. > >>>> Now I'm just curious what > >>>> > >>>> aptitude search '~c' > >>>> > >>>> spits out now. > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> jvp. > >>> > >>> A rather lengthy list I'll paste, wordwrap off again: > >>> > >>> root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# aptitude search ~c > >>> c brasero > >>> - CD/DVD burning application for GNOME c > >>> brasero-common > >>> - Common files for the Brasero CD burning application > >>> and library c browser-plugin-gnash > >>> - GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - > >>> Plugin for Mozilla and derivatives > >> > >> <snip> > >> > >>> c xfdesktop4 > >>> - xfce desktop background, icons and root menu > >>> manager c xfprint4 > >>> - Printer GUI for Xfce4 c xfwm4 > >>> > >>> - window manager of the Xfce project > >>> > >>> That's all folks! Thanks JVP. > >>> > >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> > >> All these remnants of previously installed packages can be safely > >> removed from your system in my opinion. > >> If you prefer dpkg, try > >> > >> dpkg --purge --pending > > > > Failed, libpixman1.0 has deps from the xorg.server > > root@coyote:/var/lib/dpkg# dpkg --purge --pending > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libpixman-1-0:i386: > > xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6). > > libpixman-1-dev depends on libpixman-1-0 (= 0.26.0-4+deb7u2). > > xserver-xorg-core depends on libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6). > > libcairo2:i386 depends on libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6). > > > > dpkg: error processing libpixman-1-0:i386 (--purge): > > dependency problems - not removing > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > libpixman-1-0:i386 > > Since the automatism is too reckless, we can use manual control, just > purge packages in "c" state: > > dpkg --purge $(aptitude -F '%p' search '~c') > > >> Or heavier, using aptitude > >> > >> aptitude purge '~c' > > > > And that wants to behead the system, removing quite a few packages I > > use frequently, so I gave it a 'n'. > > > >> but this could try to remove also other automatically installed > >> packages which are not needed by any other package. To get a list > >> of such candidates use > >> > >> aptitude search '~g' > > > > And that returns an equally lengthy list, all prefaced with an 'id'. > > No clue what that means as I don't believe I have the reference > > manual. > > The packages tagged with "id" are selected to be removed (deinstall). > (aptitude shows in the first column the package status and in the > second column the desired state, just inverted compared to the the > output of dpkg). Since this is a hint for packages no longer needed, > better take a closer look at this list and sort out what's really > needed. > > For each package you want to keep, change the selection state to > "install", for example for the package libpixman-1-0 > > echo "libpixman-1-0 install" | dpkg --set-selections > > Now > > dpkg -l libpixman-1-0 > > should show the package with "ii" at the beginning of the line. > > Regards, > jvp.
I just let it do it all, and will "wait for the other shoe to drop" One thing that seems missing in these procedures is when a bunch of libs have been purged, is a run of ldconfig to clean up things. Now we'll see what gets a tummy ache. :) Thanks JVP. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
