On Saturday 03 October 2009 19:20:44 Derek Broughton wrote: > To answer the original question: > # sudo aptitude hold openoffice.org-core Ah! Thanks. You are the knees of the Bees. I had no time to read that wiki (yet). So, after your tip, I manned-up and found: aptitude hold ~nopenoffice.org Which seems to have worked. \d