apt-file search file.name should tell you the package that owns the file. Same as rpm -qf /path/to/file on rpm based systems. If you don't recognize it see what requires that package. If you don't recognize any of them dry run a removal.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Joseph Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: > It's part of the system packages, and probably used by a few different things. > > I would just leave it. It's generally best not to randomly remove binaries > installed by the package management system. > > If you're running mint, you could try "apt-get --dry-run purge mintsystem", > to *test* removing that package, but I would expect that doing so would cause > a ton of other packages to be removed with it. > > > On 06/27/2013 04:49 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Thanks all. So I guess no harm if I just delete it? >> Or is it useful? Or superseded, and if so by what? >> >>> It's listed as owned by minsystem and ubuntu-base on the two systems I >>> tested, but both are a bit older (1 and 2 years respectively) installs. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
