On 23/03/12 20:54, Alex Hutton wrote: > Hello, > > Basically what happened was I did sudo aptitude update && sudo > aptitude upgrade and I hit 'Y' to accept the packages being installed. > Only afterwards did I realise it would be installing packages from > Lenny. I tried to hit ctrl-c and ctrl-d to abort aptitude but this > didn't seem to work.
No worries. It's fixable. > > To give more information, I am running Squeeze amd64. I have not > rebooted since these packages were installed. <snipped> If, for some good reason, you need a package from an older release - just download that package and it's dependancies. If you want packages from a later release - try backports before mixing repositories, and if you do mix repositories, use pinning. > > Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated! Please post the output of:- $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list $ cat /etc/apt/preferences $ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ ls /etc/apt/preferences.d It should be a matter of simply fixing your sources.list, updating dpkg, checking the fixes, fixing, and a bit of a tidy. > > Thanks, > Alex > > Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f6c5754.5040...@gmail.com
