Hello * John O Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I've been scouring the documentation, but I can't find the answer I > want to a simple question. > I want to put a package on hold, actually I've done it with dselect, > but I don't like dselect, and I'm sure theres some way of doing it > with dpkg. the manpage for dpkg says that 'hold' is a flag you can set > for a package but doesn't say how to do it.
You can do: echo "packagename hold" | dpkg --set-selections > Can anyone help me out? > > johno Bye -- DEFRESNE Sylvain