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



On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:10:24 +0000 (UTC)
T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello T,

> Yes, that's what I am doing now. Moreover, I've put it on hold in both 
> dpkg and aptitude, but somehow it still get upgraded from time to time.

If you're going to deal with durep outside the package management system,
do so /completely/, would be my advice.

> Where does Debian keep the installed package list? How does Debian
> know if a package is installed or not?

As Monique said, /var/lib/dpkg/status.

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