On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:35:27 +0200 Manfred Hollstein <[email protected]> wrote:
>Moin, > >On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, 15:17:34 +0200, [email protected] wrote: >> I just looked and noticed that I have three versions of all (AFAICT) >> of the libav* packages. e.g: >> >> libavformat56 >> libavformat57 >> libavformat58 >> >> Most of them have numbers 56,57,58 in the name. Some have 2,3,4 or >> 5,6,7 >> >> Do I need or benefit in some way from having all three? Or should I >> just have the latest version (4.0.2.lp150...)? >> >> If this is all documented somewhere, I apologize for not finding >> it. > >you can figure out this yourself: > > rpm -e --test $(locate libavformat56) > rpm -e --test $(locate libavformat57) > rpm -e --test $(locate libavformat58) > >Every command will moan about a package still requiring the libavformat >to be removed. Only if no other package requires it, i.e. the output >from the related command is empty, you can remove the package (i.e. >remove the "--test" from the command line). Thanks. All three versions produce output similar to # rpm -e --test $(locate libavformat56) error: package /usr/share/licenses/libavformat56 is not installed error: package /usr/share/licenses/libavformat56/COPYING.GPLv2 is not installed error: package /usr/share/licenses/libavformat56/LICENSE.md is not installed I'm not sure what that means (never used locate before and don't know much about rpm. >HTH, cheers. > >l8er >manfred _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
