pin transmission-daemon on karmic server to lucid version

[James Michael Fultz]

* Jan Piet Joris en Corneel <jpjorisencorneel at gmail.com> [2010-02-07 23:08 +0100]:
> I would like to use the lucid package (version 1.83) in stead of the
> karmic package (version 1.75), because Transmission supports moving
> finished files to a different directory since version 1.80 (see
> http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/1483).
> 
> The idea of compiling transmission-daemon myself does't warm me. Is it
> possible to achieve this with some apt pinning, and could somebody
> supply me instructions?

I think that the first example from the PinningHowto would work for your
purposes.

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto>

If you don't want to be bothered with pinning, there is a PPA with the
version of Transmission you're after.

<https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/ppa>

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/ppa