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I need a couple of older libraries to make a program work. I can hold the packages with the following commands:
apt-mark hold package
echo package hold | dpkg --set-selections
That way when I try to upgrade the system through apt full-upgrade the system holds the packages correctly.
However, if I try to upgrade through the AppCenter, the packages are upgraded despite of the previous orders to apt and dpkg.
How can I prevent AppCenter from upgrading certain packages?
Thanks.
Have you tried blacklisting some specific versions of the packages? I guess this should help for at least a while!
Package: compiz-plugins-main
Pin: version 1:0.9.7.0~bzr19-0ubuntu10.1
Pin-Priority: -1
This goes into the /etc/apt/preferences file.
This has worked for me in the past. I run Unifi Controller on this desktop and I didn't want the system to update the version I was running due to some issues that I wanted to see get worked out first. "sudo apt-mark hold unifi" did exactly that and I updated everything else for a few weeks like normal until I was ready to update unifi. "sudo apt-mark unhold unifi" released the hold. "sudo apt-mark showhold" to check it.
