On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:43:48PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > > > On 09/22/2015 02:49 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > >On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:18:01PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > >>For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large > >>number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is > >>there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything > >>involving that architecture deleted? The best answer I've found on my > >>own has been to use dpkg and grep to find everything with :i386, and > >>then construct a huge dpkg --purge command to get rid of them all. > >>Hoping for something a little simpler...
> >Try this: > > > >apt-get remove --purge .*:i386 > Before you do this dangerous command , please check all your 64bit software > and make sure they don't need any i386 package. No stock Debian amd64 package should require a i386 package. > Or some of 64bit software will not work if you don't check. > For example , skype ,teamviewer all need i386 packages. 1) Users of non-free software (especially users of non-free wine-embedded software) should suffer anyway. 2) Which part of teamviewer is 64bit? Reco