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[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Keith via ubuntu-users wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
 
>These are packages that were removed either directly by you, or by
>the removal of one or more of their dependencies leaving their
>config files on the system. Dpkg will allow you see the files left
>over.
>
>$ dpkg -L steam:i386
>
>Assuming you don't need them anymore then there's no harm in
>removing them.

I'm not sure. I'm a bit worried about my sound from the output
I got below after running the command on each of the questionable
files. If all of this looks fine to you, I'll go for it:

$ dpkg -L libasound2-plugins:i386
/etc
/etc/alsa
/etc/alsa/conf.d

$ dpkg -L libpulse0:i386
/etc
/etc/pulse

$ dpkg -L libglib2.0-0:i386
Package 'libglib2.0-0:i386' does not contain any files (!)

$ dpkg -L libkf5akonadicontact-data
Package 'libkf5akonadicontact-data' does not contain any files (!)

$ dpkg -L libkf5calendarcore5abi2
Package 'libkf5calendarcore5abi2:amd64' does not contain any files (!)

$ dpkg -L libkf5grantleetheme5
Package 'libkf5grantleetheme5' does not contain any files (!)

$ dpkg -L steam:i386
Package 'steam:i386' does not contain any files (!)

>> 1. Fetch updates: sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && snap
>> refresh
>
>Have created a login for snapd? If you haven't, then the "snap
>refresh" command will fail because it needs sudo to upgrade any
>snaps.

Actually, if you run it without sudo, it pops up a little window for
you to put your password into.

>Alternatively the following will do what you want with one
>invocation of sudo.
>
>$ sudo bash -c 'apt update && apt full-upgrade && snap refresh'

I suppose that might be better since my current version has me
signing in twice, although it's just a minor annoyance.

>> 2. Reboot if prompted.
>> 3. Tidy up: sudo apt autoremove --purge && sudo apt clean
>> 
>> Does that seem like a solid future routine?
>> 
>Yeah if it works for you. I prefer letting the system as its set up
>to do as much of the package maintenance automatically, so I don't
>have a particular routine that I regularly follow.

My reason for doing it in three separate steps is so that I don't do
the cleanup until after the reboot, if one is needed.

>I would note that apt doesn't default to caching downloaded packages 
>after they've been installed, so "apt clean" seems a bit superfluous.

I figured it could be handy in case one or more of the updates
installs some necessary packages. Is that unlikely?

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.