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Re: I accidentally installed lenny's linux-image/linux-header packages and I'm running Squeeze. What to do?



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

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