LinuxQuestions.org - Do I need these additional files?

- Debian (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/)

- - Do I need these additional files? (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/do-i-need-these-additional-files-693890/)

Do I need these additional files?

Background:
I have installed Debian Lenny on my Intel Mobile Processor machine, with a 2.6.26-1-686 kernel. am trying to make my system as lean as possible because of space constraints. I am already down to 190 MB and I further need to reduce it. So here is my question:

I noticed that I have three folders who contents are exactly the same:

Code:

root@debian-workstation:/usr/lib# ls -l i486/

total 1432

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1209080 2008-05-07 17:39 libcrypto.so.0.9.8

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  242112 2008-05-07 17:39 libssl.so.0.9.8

root@debian-workstation:/usr/lib# ls -l i586/

total 1408

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1193176 2008-05-07 17:39 libcrypto.so.0.9.8

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  237056 2008-05-07 17:39 libssl.so.0.9.8

root@debian-workstation:/usr/lib# ls -l i686/

total 4

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-05-23 17:09 cmov

root@debian-workstation:/usr/lib# ls -l i686/cmov/

total 1500

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1270520 2008-05-07 17:39 libcrypto.so.0.9.8

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  253120 2008-05-07 17:39 libssl.so.0.9.8

root@debian-workstation:/usr/lib#

The file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 is around 12 MB and that is Gold for me right now. Since I have a system which supports 686 arch (in kernel and package terms,) can I remove the libcryoto.so.0.9.8 and libssl.so.0.9.8 from i486 and i586 directories safely and just keep the i686 files?

Thank you.

You could try using symbolic links so that the i486 directory and the i586 directories are symbolic links to the i686/cmov directory.

------------------------
Steve Stites

Quote:

Originally Posted by jailbait (Post 3391761)

You could try using symbolic links so that the i486 directory and the i586 directories are symbolic links to the i686/cmov directory.

------------------------
Steve Stites

Thank you. I wonder how did they get installed in the first place. On my other system I check /usr/lib and there was i686 folder but not 486 or 586...strange.... As far as I remember I did not install any special packages which I first installed the Lenny from ISO CD.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kushalkoolwal (Post 3391752)

The file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 is around 12 MB and that is Gold for me right now.

Check that size again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by makuyl (Post 3391782)

Check that size again.

Sorry I mean 1.2 MB. Right now anything above 1/2 MB is fair play for me.

I wish it were 12 MB and then I would have been dancing.....:D

Thanks for correcting me..

I would advise against removing files. It can seriously break a Debian system. What happens if you look in the list produced with dpkg --get-selections? Any trace of multiple installed packages?

jlinkels