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cincibluer6 is offline cincibluer6
2011-09-10 , 17:38
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Did a search but couldn't find what I needed. I just want to hold back kernel packages from updating. I'm trying to update other things in the xterm and want to avoid updating kernel-power to v48 (v47 works fine for me and v48 from what I've seen has a few problems.)

I found this thread..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...+back+packages

Trying to do this though resulted in dpkg not recognizing the second command (to set the packages on hold.) Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
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2011-09-10 , 17:54
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#2
when I do such thing, I disable all catalogs from AppMan except for the one that belongs to the program I wanna upgrade.
Then I simply:

root
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

But if the packages that you don't wanna update are in the same catalog of the one you want to update then you gotta update each one by one. I dun know anyway other than that.

p/s: btw the link you stated requires a login to view.
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2011-09-10 , 18:00
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Much more convenient way, is to pinning version in apt-preferences.
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2011-09-10 , 18:02
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Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Much more convenient way, is to pinning version in apt-preferences.
So it doesn't update if I pin it?
 
cincibluer6 is offline cincibluer6
2011-09-10 , 18:08
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Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Much more convenient way, is to pinning version in apt-preferences.
Can you post a link to a method? I looked it up and I have no preferences file in my /etc/apt folder (maybe that way for a reason as nothing has been really changed I guess.)

@K999, yeah, sorry, forgot that it needed a login. Basically just stated making a txt file with the version from dpkg. Then you just edited it stating for it to "hold" instead of "install."
 
michaaa62 is offline michaaa62
2011-09-10 , 18:26
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You might set the hold for the package named PACKAGE with:
Code:
sudo gainroot
echo PACKAGE hold | dpkg --set-selections
You later may regret your decision or want to test another version, so to remove the hold do
Code:
 sudo gainroot
echo PACKAGE install|dpkg --set-selections
To keep track of your held packages you type
Code:
dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
 

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2011-09-10 , 19:52
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Thanks michaaa62, that's perfect.
 
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