Admin problem

[Jack Bowling]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:53:53PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 13:03 +0100, debsid wrote:
> > I've finally upgraded from Debian SID to Unbuntu 6.06.
> 
> This is unsupported and a very bad idea. It's documented somewhere, but
> I can't find it atm.
> It might work or not depending on the state of sid, but you never can be
> sure what remains lying around. I did it once (to Warty or Hoary IIRC)
> and had all kinds of bugs nobody else could reproduce, and most turned
> out to be caused by the odd stray conffile or similar.
> If you have /home on a different partition, it is faster and safer to
> reinstall

You could try:

sudo apt-get install deborphan
sudo deborphan | xargs dpkg -r --purge

to get rid of the junk left over.

Jack