apt-file search file.name should tell you the package that owns the
file. Same as rpm -qf /path/to/file on rpm based systems. If you don't
recognize it see what requires that package. If you don't recognize
any of them dry run a removal.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Joseph Sinclair
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> It's part of the system packages, and probably used by a few different things.
>
> I would just leave it. It's generally best not to randomly remove binaries installed by the package management system.
>
> If you're running mint, you could try "apt-get --dry-run purge mintsystem", to *test* removing that package, but I would expect that doing so would cause a ton of other packages to be removed with it.
>
>
> On 06/27/2013 04:49 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>> Thanks all. So I guess no harm if I just delete it?
>> Or is it useful? Or superseded, and if so by what?
>>
>>> It's listed as owned by minsystem and ubuntu-base on the two systems I
>>> tested, but both are a bit older (1 and 2 years respectively) installs.
>>
>>
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