Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 04:23:12AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-08-31 22:03 (UTC-0700):
>
> > Felix Miata wrote:
[...]
> > #dpkg-hold 'package-name'
> > #dpkg-unhold 'package-name'
>
> dpkg hold
> dpkg-hold
> dpkg -hold
> dpkg --hold
>
> All produce command-not-found or unknown option messages (in Buster).
Perhaps dlocate is the package you're looking for:
tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search dpkg-hold
dlocate: /usr/sbin/dpkg-hold
dlocate: /usr/share/man/man8/dpkg-hold.8.gz
Man page credits dpkg-hold with doing more or less what you described.
Cheers
- -- t
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