With Kpackage I can select which packages to upgrade and which not. <div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/3 Donn <<a href="mailto:donn.ingle@gmail.com">donn.ingle@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>