Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2017-10-07 at 03:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> So, I want to perform the system update, without updating Firefox and
> its related packages, such as some associated libfirefox or
> something.

If what you want is simply to be able to upgrade normally, but NOT
upgrade one particular package (in this case firefox), then you
probably want to use apt-mark to "hold" the package.

See "man apt-mark". You basically do this:

   sudo apt-mark hold firefox

That flags the package and prevents it from being upgraded or removed.
Or even installed if it is not already installed. I presume (but do not
know) that it prevents a downgrade too, because a downgrade is realy a
remove of the current version followed by an install of the older
version.

What I am NOT sure about is what happens to any dependencies, I've only
ever pinned a couple of things and it was a long time ago using a more
complicated method. You might want to check that the upgrade pla and
hold any suspiciously firefoxy items :-)

Regards, K.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
http://twitter.com/kauer389

GPG fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A
Old fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B