Aptitude prevention

[Derek Broughton]

Ric Moore wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 09:59 +0200, Donn wrote:
>> On Saturday 03 October 2009 09:41:48 Wesley Velroij wrote:
>> > With Kpackage I can select which packages to upgrade and which not.
>> > 
>> Maybe this is a new thing. I am still on Jaunty and I can't see any way
>> to specify this. There are Green + signs but no option for 'do not
>> upgrade this'.
> 
> I'm using karmic, but with synaptic, click on your package to lock, then
> click on package in the tool bar, then click on "lock version". That
> should do it. Ric

Wesley said "with kpackage" and Donn said he didn't see a way.  So then 
telling how you do it with a package manager that is neither KPackage, nor 
aptitude, nor even KDE, hardly seems apropos.

To answer the original question:

# sudo aptitude hold openoffice.org-core

should do the job
-- 
derek