Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Bret Busby]

On 07/10/2017, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 03:32:12 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>The updates include Firefox, which I do not trust in versions later
>>than the installed version on this machine; 53.0.3 .
>
> Actually dpkg as well as
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/apt-mark.8.html allow
> to "hold" packages and to upgrade anything else, assuming there
> should be no dependency conflicts, but I'm not willing to help you
> holding a browser, that needs a security upgrade,
> https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3391-1/ . Synaptic allows this, too, but
> is using another term, not "hold".
>

I may have found a bandaid fix for part of the problem in firefox,
but, basically, I have found firefoxv 54 to be malware, and so, my
trusting (as much as a web browser can be trusted) of updating
firefox, ended with v54.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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