Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I know with the latest changes came a new APT that can handle both 32
> and 64 packages, which is great. However, i barely need 32bit packages
> and yet i have 97 ia32* packages installed. Most of them are libs, but
> i also have ia32-at-spi, ia32-gtk2-engines, ia32-gtk2-engines-pixbuf
> and ia32-xaw3dg installed.
>
> The only 32bit app i use, barely, is Skype. I occasionaly compile
> stuff for i386 with -m32 but it's not a necessity.
>
> I also noticed that even though i have only two servers on my
> /etc/apt/sources.list, apt is updating from three servers and there
> are a whole bunch of files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, including
> many ia32*.
That sounds like you have an older version of ia32-apt-get installed
and you forgot to run
/usr/share/ia32-apt-get/convert-all-sources.list.
> The question is: how can i keep ia32 stuff to a minimum?
>
> TIA
Just uninstall as much as you can untill it wants to remove skype as
well.
MfG
Goswin
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