On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, chrism at imntv.com wrote: > I've gotten roped into helping a local charity with some > computing/infrastructure snafus. It seems their last good Samaritan > installed Ubuntu all over the place and is "unavailable" now to clean up the > mess. CentOS has made me somewhat lazy because everything just works out of > the box for the most part and you've got the occasional "yum update". :) We maintain a Debian box for internal testing of some code; Assuming the /etc/apt/sources.list is intact, as root: apt-get update apt-get update should do most things; if you get messages about packages being held back from upgrades, contact me off list (as these are after all Debian type issues), but basically, dpkg --remove - and - dpkg --configure -a are your friends. -- Russ Herrold