Re: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:33:14 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Can you provide any more information about this? It shouldn't happen
> in any recent version of aptitude.
I can only give you partial information.
This is what I've been doing
aptitude --purge-unused purge durep
dpkg -i /linux/linux_bin/deb-pkgs/durep_0.8.1-7.1_all.deb
aptitude install durep=
For how it happened, I need directions for where to look for such
"more information".
I only do 'aptitude safe-upgrade' sporadically, last time I did, less
than a month ago, there were nearly 200 packages need to be upgraded.
It is not the first time such thing happens, I agree with Monique's
obervation, "when aptitude is making suggestions to resolve conflicts, it
will un-hold packages."
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