Re: Temporarily hold a package............

[Charlie <ariestao@ipstarmail.com.au>]

On Sat, 09 May 2015 09:11:29 +0200 Matthias Bodenbinder sent:

> Hi Charlie,
> 
> you could either pin a package in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ 
> 	Package: hello
> 	Pin: release n=lenny
> 	Pin-Priority: 995
> 	..
> 	see
> http://blog.opperschaap.net/2009/12/12/using-the-preferences-file-on-debian-and-debian-based-distributions/ 
> or hold a package
> 	sudo apt-mark hold package_name
> 	..
> 	see
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package
> 
> Matthias


Thank you Mathias.

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