Aptitude prevention

[Wesley Velroij]

With Kpackage I can select which packages to upgrade and which not.

2009/10/3 Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>

> Hello,
> I want to prevent openoffice from upgrading. Frankly, I rarely use it and
> it
> want to chew 92mb of my bandwidth. I am dimly aware that there is a subject
> called 'pinning' -- is that a way I can tell aptitude to ignore this
> update?
>
> Here's the stuff it want to upgrade:
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  libsmbclient libwbclient0 openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-calc
> openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
>  openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-gnome
> openoffice.org-
> gtk openoffice.org-impress
>  openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-math
> openoffice.org-
> style-crystal openoffice.org-style-human
>  openoffice.org-writer python-uno samba-common smbclient ttf-opensymbol
> uno-
> libs3 ure winbind
> 24 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 91.9MB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB will be used.
>
> So, how can I put all that aside and let other updates continue normally?
>
> Just to clarify, I want to wipe and reinstall Karmik when it comes out (32
> bit
> this time, 64 has been hell) so I don't really care about openoffice right
> now.
>
> \d
>
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