On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:14:26PM -0500, Ganeshram Iyer wrote: > Hello all, > I am trying to ensure that certain packages that I have apt-get > installed are never upgraded (even security). specifically these are > libwine wine wine-utils. I have version 20041019 the version > recommended by winetools package > (http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/) and I am more than > happy with this version. the other versions do not work as well (I > have tried). now everytime i need to do an apt-get upgrade I first > simulate with a (-s) and see which packages other than the wine* > packages have to be upgraded and select those manually to be updated > using apt-get. anyway I can tell apt-get upgrade to never upgrade > those three packages and leave them untouched? I tried to do something > with apt-preferences but got nowhere (still a newbie - just 2 months > with debian - although a year with rpm based distros) >
If you use a package manager like dselect or aptitude, then you can tell it to "hold" the package. You can also do this directly with dpkg. In aptitude, simply pressing equals (=) with the package name selected places it on hold. For dpkg and others you will need to read the man pages, or maybe someone else can explain how. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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