On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:03:09 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > <snip> > > > 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. > > No, when purging a debian package, dpkg triggers actions like ldconfig > as prescribed by control scripts contained in the package (a.o., these > script are still on the system when a package is merely removed). > These scripts are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info for every package > installed. For example there is a "libpixman-1-0:amd64.triggers" > package on my system (amd64) which triggers ldconfig. > > Best regards, > jvp.
I don't figure it hurts anything. kmail, after that died an agonizing death, but after an ldconfig, and a restart, seems to be it old self again. Nothing else I've started since that worked before, has refused to work after, so I think I'm pretty close to finished. Many 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>
