Re: placing a hold on package

[René Seindal <rene@seindal.dk>]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 03:55:06PM -0700, Faruk Grozdanic wrote:
> 
> I do not wish the kernel-image package installed since I am already 
> running kernel 2.4.17 (downloaded kernel-source package & compiled it). 
> Reading the documentation & man pages, it seems that a hold needs to be 
> placed on the specified package for this to happen. I would like apt-get 
>  to permanently ignore this package. Can someone please tell me how to 
> do this or at least point me in the right direction. I do not know if 

Hi,

The command

    echo "<package> hold" | dpkg --set-selections

should put the package on hold for you.

René Seindal. 



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