Excluding a package when dist-upgrade'ing

[Koffeehaus]

Is there a way of excluding a software package when issuing the 'apt-get dist-upgrade' command? For example the newer 'pm-utils' packs are incompatible with my hardware and my laptop starts to glitch. What I do is I uninstall and replace the package every time I run 'sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'. Which is kind of annoying. I know that you can hide updates from the update manager, but what about the terminal? I'm sure there are codes like "dist-upgrade [except pm-utils]"

[mörgæs]

I don't know for sure, since I never do dist-upgrade, but you could try this:

http://www.accessdataservices.com/blog/apt-get-hold-version/

[Koffeehaus]

I don't know for sure, since I never do dist-upgrade, but you could try this:

http://www.accessdataservices.com/blog/apt-get-hold-version/

Excellent! Thanks Mörgæs, just what I was looking for!