Re: How to skip installing one package.

[Shreyas Ananthan <shreyas@stallion.umd.edu>]

Franki <franki@littlehosting.com> writes:

> Anyway, onto my question, is there anyway to tell apt-get to skip
> trying to install an updated postfix package?  I read though the man
> pages and searched the net, but couldn't find an answer that made

You need to pin the package in /etc/apt/preferences, for more information see

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-apt-show-versions

If you use aptitude then you can hold the packages through the ncurses
interface.