Re: Removing i386 architecture

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 10:27 PM <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> In order to install steam from the Debian repo, I followed the
> directions to:
>
> dpkg --add-architecture i386
>
> prior to the installation. Turns out steam wouldn't run my game, so I
> uninstalled it. Now I don't need the i386 architecture, so I dutifully
> did:
>
> dpkg --remove-architecture i386
>
> I received this error message:
>
> dpkg: error: cannot remove architecture 'i386' currently in use by the
> database
>
> So if anyone can help me remove i386, I'd appreciate it.

    apt-get remove --purge \
        `dpkg --get-selections | grep i386 | awk '{print $1}'`

followed by

    dpkg --remove-architecture i386

Jeff