Answer by Francisco for How to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
The debian's multiarch guide mentions this command: apt-get purge ".*:<arch>", which would look like this for i386:sudo apt-get purge ".*:i386"You can then remove the architecture from dpkg:sudo...
View ArticleAnswer by Patrick for How to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
In case anyone is wondering, there's a much more sane and graceful way to do this. The last previous answer hopes to do the same thing, but that search fails since architectures are not actually part...
View ArticleAnswer by PythoNic for How to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
The other automated solutions are dangerous and not always working (1), so here another waysudo aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep ":i386" | awk '{print $1}'`orsudo apt-get purge `dpkg...
View ArticleAnswer by kevinarpe for How to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
There is another way of lower risk:sudo apt-get remove "^.*:i386$"This will specifically match only packages ending with ":i386", which is the standard naming convention for all i386 architecture...
View ArticleAnswer by Mathnode for How to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
I blitzed all my 32bit packages like this:sudo apt-get remove `dpkg --get-selections | grep i386 | awk '{print $1}'`
View ArticleAnswer by Henk for How to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
If they are not in your way, I would leave them where they are.If you insist on deletion, use dpkg -l | grep i386 to create a list of i386-packages. You can delete these after careful checking with...
View ArticleHow to remove all i386 packages from Ubuntu 64bit?
Over the time I installed many i386 packages, which I no longer need. How can I clean up the system and stay only with the amd64 packages?
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