apt-get blacklist

[eriqjaffe]

I've run into some issues with samba that require me to keep an older version on my systems - however, whenever I try to apt-get upgrade, it wants to replace them with the current versions...which don't work for me.

Is there a way of blacklisting these packages so that when I try to upgrade via apt-get, it'll ignore them and process the rest? A text file or something somewhere?

I tried locking the packages in Synaptic, but that didn't seem to do anything to apt-get. Also...I don't even have Synaptic on my older laptop, so even if that fix did work, it still wouldn't really help me.

[warp99]

I've run into some issues with samba that require me to keep an older version on my systems - however, whenever I try to apt-get upgrade, it wants to replace them with the current versions...which don't work for me.

Is there a way of blacklisting these packages so that when I try to upgrade via apt-get, it'll ignore them and process the rest? A text file or something somewhere?

I tried locking the packages in Synaptic, but that didn't seem to do anything to apt-get. Also...I don't even have Synaptic on my older laptop, so even if that fix did work, it still wouldn't really help me.

Yes there is just run the following:

echo "foo hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

and that will hold the current package and not allow an update with apt-get unless it's a dist-upgrade. Now of course replace 'foo' with the name of your package. More info on the powerful apt-get package management tools can be viewed here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ap...=%28apt-get%29

and here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html

[eriqjaffe]

Thank you, I missed that page.