On Friday 24 February 2006 18:48, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday > and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried > will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that > version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. I read > through the aptitude man page and this looked like the proper way to > do it: > > aptitude forbid-version libfreetype6=2.1.10-1 > > When I run "aptitude show libfreetype6" it says that version is > forbidden: > > Forbidden version: 2.1.10-1 > > but dist-upgrade still wants to install it.
Hold the package instead of forbidding it. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
