Re: messed up release in apt

[Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com>]

On 30-04-18, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 30 Apr 2018 at 11:49:33 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> > I mistakenly added an etc/apt/sources.list line for "jessie"(backports)
> > instead of "stretch", which is my current release. I proceded to update
> > apt and installed Wine (along with many packages, some i386) from the
> > jessie-backports source (i.e. apt install wine/jessie-backports).
> > Please tell me how I can locate all wrongly installed packages and
> > remove them, and install correct packages from stretch-backports,
> > thank you,
> 
> Take a look at apt's log in /var/log.
> 
> Or let apt sort it out with the correct line in sources.list and then
> update and upgrade.
> 
> Or, both.
> 
> -- 
> Brian.
>  
> 

I would first use old sources.list to purge wine and follow it up with
autoremove. But after that new, this time intended and correct,
sources.list with apt-get should solve problem.