Moin, On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, 16:56:48 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:35:27 +0200 > Manfred Hollstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Moin, > > > >On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, 15:17:34 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > >> I just looked and noticed that I have three versions of all (AFAICT) > >> of the libav* packages. e.g: > >> > >> libavformat56 > >> libavformat57 > >> libavformat58 > >> > >> Most of them have numbers 56,57,58 in the name. Some have 2,3,4 or > >> 5,6,7 > >> > >> Do I need or benefit in some way from having all three? Or should I > >> just have the latest version (4.0.2.lp150...)? > >> > >> If this is all documented somewhere, I apologize for not finding > >> it. > > > >you can figure out this yourself: > > > > rpm -e --test $(locate libavformat56) > > rpm -e --test $(locate libavformat57) > > rpm -e --test $(locate libavformat58) > > > >Every command will moan about a package still requiring the libavformat > >to be removed. Only if no other package requires it, i.e. the output > >from the related command is empty, you can remove the package (i.e. > >remove the "--test" from the command line). > > Thanks. All three versions produce output similar to > > # rpm -e --test $(locate libavformat56) > error: package /usr/share/licenses/libavformat56 is not installed > error: package /usr/share/licenses/libavformat56/COPYING.GPLv2 is not > installed > error: package /usr/share/licenses/libavformat56/LICENSE.md is not installed > > I'm not sure what that means (never used locate before and don't know > much about rpm.
OK, probably my fault. Just try running the commands _without_ the locate thing: rpm -e --test libavformat56 rpm -e --test libavformat57 rpm -e --test libavformat58 Cheers. l8er manfred
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