apt-get Update Selective Packages

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:04 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> What do you do if you don't want to replace the old one, but install
> the new one side-by-side? 

Depends on what you want to do. I will give options once you
explained :)

>  As in a kernel upgrade, where you don't
> want to replace, or a different version of a shared library?

The old kernel is always retained after a distro upgrade, and you can
choose it from the boot menu.

Why exactly do you want to keep an old library version?