[packman] libav versions

[Manfred Hollstein]

Moin,

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, 16:56:48 +0200, packman at howorth.org.uk wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:35:27 +0200
> Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> >Moin,
> >
> >On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, 15:17:34 +0200, packman at howorth.org.uk 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.

OK, probably my fault. Just try running the commands _without_ the
locate thing:

  rpm -e --test libavformat56
  rpm -e --test libavformat57
  rpm -e --test libavformat58

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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