Re: Hosed KDE

[Sheldon Lee Wen <tormak@home.com>]

> P.S. Is there a better way of pinning several packages to the same
> release/version than giving all there own entry in /etc/apt/preferences? I
> tried wildcards and writing several package names on the same "Package"
> line.

Try the following:

dpkg --get-selections > dpkg.selections

Open that file and find the packages that you don't want to upgrade when you
do apt-get installs and upgrades. You can change the flag from install to 
hold.

Then run:

dpkg --set-selections < dpkg.selections

Those packages marked hold will not get upgraded now when you install packages
or upgrade your dist.

Cheers,
Sheldon.