Hold back some packages on apt-get upgrade - how? ; gre

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

* Pongo A. Pan [31/05/11 15:49]:
> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 23:38 -0700, giovanni_re wrote:
> > Running 10.04, with firefox installed from the ppa. cause that's more
> > recent than the ff 3 in 10.04
> > ff is the "nightly" build, from the ppa - but, I don't want to have to
> > update it every day.
> > 
> > So, how can I tell apt to upgrade everything but ff "nightly"?
> > 
> > Thanks :)
> 
> Pinning - see for example,
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto


Or from a terminal:

sudo "echo firefox hold" | dpkg --set-selections


(to take out the hold:
sudo "echo firefox install" | dpkg --set-selections
)

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Walter Garcia-Fontes               
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat