Hi, Gene Heskett wrote on 06/03/16 13:14: > Greetings all; > > I re-added the amd64 architecture to the architecture's in dpkg/synaptic, > but the package -> force-version remains stubbornly ghosted, so I cannot > fix any broken patckages that are preventing the install of any updates. > > So I try to have dpkg remove the amd64 aarchitecture, but now get a > database is locked error. The system is working, quite stably, but I
Using aptitude I would command aptitude purge '~ramd64' and maybe aptitude purge '~c' which should remove leftover config files from packages previously removed. Then again dpkg --remove-architecture amd64 Regards, jvp. > cannot update anything. A dpkg -C spits out about 60 files in error, > all tagged :amd64. > > What are the steps I should take to fix this? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett >