Why is libc-bin needed?

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nuclear_kote2018-03-04 03:14:42

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nuclear_kote, 2018-03-04 03:14:42

Killed the firmware on wd my cloud now with apt-get -f install it suggests to remove libc-bin . What is it for and what will happen if you remove it?

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sim3x, 2018-03-04
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Debugging
https://packages.debian.org/sid/libc-bin
his package contains utility programs related to the GNU C Library.
* catchsegv: catch segmentation faults in programs
* getconf: query system configuration variables
* getent: get entries from administrative databases
* iconv, iconvconfig: convert between character encodings
* ldd, ldconfig: print/configure shared library dependencies
* locale, localedef: show/ generate locale definitions
* tzselect, zdump, zic: select/dump/compile time zones