On Sunday 08 May 2016 06:10:36 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Synaptic is telling me it cannot configure the new i386 version of > libssl and friends on an i386 install, because it THINKS the amd64 > version is installed. It's been hand nuked when I found that it was > not available to be nuked if the architecture wasn't set to include > amd64 stuff. Short of enabling that architecture again, how can I > clean up this mess? > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
Never mind, I played 10,000 monkeys and got it. For the record in case it helps somebody else: sudo dpkg --configure -a returns a list which contained the offending file. Then sudo dpkg --purge libssl1.0.0:amd64 Which did clean up its database. Then: sudo dpkg --configure -a which then returned this: Setting up libssl1.0.0:i386 (1.0.1e-2+deb7u21) ... Setting up openssl (1.0.1e-2+deb7u21) ... Setting up libssl-dev (1.0.1e-2+deb7u21) ... Setting up libpkcs11-helper1:i386 (1.09-1) ... Setting up libp11-2:i386 (0.2.8-2) ... which completed the i386 versions installation. I probably need to reboot but I am behind a firewall in a dd-wrt reflashed router. Yeah, nothing but kmail is running, nightly backup is done. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
