aptutude holding packages

[Mario Vukelic]

Thinking is good, but I thought we might want to know :) Google to the
rescue!

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html 

With aptitude, you can hold a package using
     aptitude hold package_name
and remove the hold with
     aptitude unhold package_name


And I tried myself:

sudo aptitude hold totem

aptitude show totem
Package: totem
State: installed [held]

sudo aptitude unhold totem

aptitude show totem
Package: totem
State: installed

sudo aptitude hold totem

aptitude show totem
Package: totem
State: installed [held]

sudo aptitude install totem

aptitude show totem
Package: totem
State: installed