Importance of ubuntu-desktop

[Markus Schönhaber]

04.12.2009 22:41, frank:

> The only real option seems to be "pin". But the documentation I can find
> refers to a file /etc/apt/preferences which does not exist, seems to have
> been replaced by a series of little files in several sub-dirs. Anyone
> has a link explaining the new syntax?

Every time I wanted to do some apt pinning on Ubuntu, I had to create
/etc/apt/preferences from scratch. That it's not there doesn't mean it
will be ignored if you create it.
AFAIK there's the *additional* possibility to create fragments of the
file in .../preferences.d like there is for .../sources.list.d or
.../apt.conf.d. But you should still be able to use .../preferences.

WRT docs see for example
man apt_preferences
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto

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Regards
  mks