Re: holding packages
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 03:50:25AM +1100, Drew Parsons uttered these words:
: Why don't dpkg or apt handle package statuses? You can install a package
: from the command line, but you can't hold it.
:
: dselect is the only way I know to do this, why can't it be done from the
: command line? I thought the use of dpkg was supposed to be optional.
Maybe this is what you are looking for
echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections
That's what I usually use to hold packages. There might be a better
way to do it now but this has always worked for me.
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