upgrade and synaptic

[Derek Broughton]

Andrew Conkling wrote:

> On 2/18/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 19:01 -0500, Andrew Conkling wrote:
>> >
>> > Actually, I'm fairly sure you can specify what takes priority by
>> > "pinning" your repositories.  I've never done it, but the wiki seems
>> > to have something to say on the matter:
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PinningHowto
>>
>> You're talking about apt-get not synaptic, its front-end in ubuntu.
>> apt-get is of course more powerful, but less easy to understand.
> 
> I'm a bit confused.  So does Synaptic behave differently than apt-get?
>  I had thought Synaptic was just a graphical front-end...?

It is - pinning works just as well for Synaptic.  However, if you don't
actually know apt-get, you're not likely to have much success with pinning,
as it's pretty arcane.
-- 
derek