How to stop 'apt update' + 'apt upgrade' from updating one particular library?

[Keith]

On 11/19/21 6:09 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 04:27:03PM -0600, Keith wrote:
>> On 11/18/21 3:20 PM, Chris Green wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 03:36:54PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 15:23, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a bug in the version 10.37 of libpcre2-8-0:amd64 which installs
>>>>> with [x]ubuntu 21.10.  The bug is not present in the previous version.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way to prevent apt from updating that particular library
>>>>> to the latest version when I do an overall 'apt update' and 'apt
>>>>> upgrade'?
>>>>
>>>> This should help.
>>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package
>>>>
>>>> It was the first google hit for me.
>>>>
>>> Yes, however I need to get back to the older version before putting it
>>> on hold.  Currently I have version 10.37 installed and that has the bug.
>>>
>>
>> Here's the package you can download and install locally.
>>
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pcre2/libpcre2-8-0_10.36-2ubuntu5_amd64.deb
>>
>> There's a lot of packages that list libpcre2 as a dependency, and some
>> of those may require a certain version higher than 10.36.
>>
> I've checked and, at the moment, nothing that I have installed
> requires >10.34.  Thanks for the link.
>

you're welcome.

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Keith