Gene Heskett wrote on 06/05/16 21:52: > 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 >
You're welcome. Regards, jvp.