Is this update a retrograde step?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:45 +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
>> Not so long back, I installed Firefox 3.5 from the Firefox website. 
>> I've been fairly happy with it.  Now the update manager wants me to
>> install the latest version of Firefox 3.0.  If I do, purely to stop the
>> update reminders, will it trash my 3.5 installation?  If not, is there
>> any way I can stop the update message ?
> 
> you could uninstall 3.0... or you could install the ubuntu version of
> FF3.5 from it's testing Launchpad repo (though I dont think that'd be
> any different from getting it from the FF website...except maybe less
> stable since the launchpad repo is of nightly builds)
> 
> either that or you can put a hold on your 3.0 firefox install so apt
> wont bother you about it any more. I believe to do that you would do
> this: 
> 
>         To put a package to hold: 
>         echo "package_name hold"|dpkg --set-selections 
>         
>         to 'unhold' it: 
>         echo "package_name install"|dpkg --set-selecions
> 
> Taken from here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=240
> 
> Hope that helps :)
> 
Another way, easier for me anyway, it to use aptitude:

sudo aptitude hold <package_name>

Just substitute "unhold for hold" to remove the package hold whenever 
you want to remove the hold on the package.  I'm sure apt-get or 
apt-cache has a similar command but I didn't look it up.
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