apt-cache and apt_preferences

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

I am trying to understand how to use apt preferences and pinning. 

I have read man apt_preferences several times and am confused. I have Googled 
apt preferences and found many links to the man page. But I would like 
somethine else, since I don't understand the man page, i.e. an alternative 
explanation that is somewhat more discursive than the man page. Is there such?

I have already found an APT HOWTO, but it is trivially different from the 
man page, an example or two use different target package names, so it does 
not help me. Also, it mentions an /etc/apt/apt.conf _file_ which is not 
present on my Woody, so I wonder if it is, perhaps, obsolete.

TIA

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@quiknet.com    


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