Remove a s/w permanantly from ubuntu software center

[Alan Pope]

On 3 September 2011 17:30, Amrit Pal Pathak <amritpalpathak1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choonlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One simple way to achieve this is to remove the repository the
>> software is listed in.
>
>          Can you tell me please how to do it?

That's somewhat overkill. It would be like blocking access to an
entire high street shop because you don't like one product in it.

Probably the best way to do what Amrit wants is to create a new
package which conflicts with the one you don't want installed. This is
outlined here:-

http://serverfault.com/questions/17046/preventing-specific-packages-from-getting-installed-in-debian

This is what the "mono-nono" guys do to prevent installation of mono
based applications.

Al.