Please would everyone note that in the world of Debian and Ubuntu packages, chromium is a game, and chromium-browser is a browser :)
> On Dec 22, 2011 8:43 AM, Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Removing Chromium using the two different commands provides massively > different results. This was 1st reported on IRC and the pastebin [1] > of the output is now available. If one of the 'guru's could take a > look at it, it's way beyond my limited expertise! > [1] http://paste.ubuntu.com/778561/ It pays to stick with apt-get or aptitude and not mix them. However, that doesn't really fully explain this. At a quick glance, I have a suspicion that the issue could be related to line 141 of that pastebin page: 141) ia32-libs recommends ia32-libs-multiarch Hmmm... ia32libs is *not* a default install on Lubuntu (or Ubuntu!) as far as I know. Therefore, it appears that someone has probably been experimenting with running 32bit-only closed-source proprietary apps on a 64bit OS installation, and has got themselves (or aptitude, or something) into a bit of a mess. ia32-libs is a fairly nastly hack, IMO, and should only be used by people who thoroughly understand what it does and how it works (and I don't fully understand that myself!). I admit that I do use la32-libs, very reluctantly, to run Skype on my amd64 Ubuntu Lucid install, but that's *not* a recommendation of it. Multi-arch support in Ubuntu is improving, but I don't think it is "there" yet. To explore this further, can we ask: (a) Who or what installed ia32-libs, and for what purpose? (b) Was the chromium-browser being removed a 32bit i386 chromium-browser, or a 64bit amd64 chromium-browser? dpkg-query -W -f='${Package} ${Version}\t${Architecture}\n' chromium-browser should help answer that one. (c) Can this issue be duplicated from a fresh Lubuntu install, and if so, what are the exact set of steps needed to do so? (d) What do the following commands output on the affected system? uname -a ; echo $(lsb_release -cdrs) aptitude why ia32-libs (e) Lastly (this could generate a lot of output!), what is the output from: aptitude -Wvs remove chromium-browser Jonathan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
