On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:23, Peter Werner wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > How do I prevent the fltk package being upgraded using Apt? > > put the package on hold. see 6.12 in > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html > on how to do this. > > greetings Peter Werner
Thanks Peter for your reply, and the link. Unfortunately it only deals with Aptitude, and Dpkg, and there appears to be no way to put a hold on an individual package with Apt ( at least not on the Apt version on Fedora). I also posted this question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone there suggested pinning, and having tried various incantations in /etc/apt/preferences, this one appears to work. Package: fltk Pin: version 1.1.7* Pin-Priority: 1001 The fltk version 1.1.7* is referring to fltk-1.1.7-1.fc5, which is the installed version of fltk, and installed using rpm -Uvh <path to fltk package>. I replaced the fltk-1.1.8-0.3.r5750.fc7 version with the fc5 version, as the fc7 version creates problems with ZynnAddSubFX. Ignore the rpm stuff as it refers to Fedora, but apart from that the pinning appears to be working ok. I ran an apt-get update, and no warning about pinning problems. Followed that with an apt-get dist-upgrade -s, and got no packages to be upgraded, which confirmed that the pinning was working. Opened Synaptic, and installed version of fltk was showing as 1.1.7-1.fc5, and available version of fltk is also showing as 1.1.7-1.fc5, which again showed that the pinning was working. Thanks again for your help with an Apt problem on Fedora, and btw, I still havn't had a reply to this problem I sent to the Fedora list. They're probably too occupied with Yum problems, or just didn't have an answer. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
