Re: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-04-20 10:22, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I trick my Debian into thinking that a package is not installed?
>
> I am talking about the *standalone* durep package. I don't like the new 
> 0.9 version but rather prefer the old 0.8 version. However, even I've put 
> it on hold in dpkg/aptitude, from time to time if I do a 'aptitude safe-
> upgrade', this durep package somehow get upgraded as well. 
>
> So now I think the easiest way for me to fix the problem once and for all 
> is to hide the fact to my Debian that the durep package is ever installed.

apt-get users "pin" packages at a certain version.  I don't know if 
aptitude does that behind the scenes.

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: icedove
Pin: version 2.0*
Pin-Priority: 1001

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