SOLVED: How to keep a program from being updated in Kpackagekit or apt?

[kwokyinc]

I am using 9.04 and have installed Wine 1.1.21 thru the wine ppa a couple of weeks ago. The Kubuntu update notification keeps asking me to upgrade wine to the latest version of 1.1.22. I don't want that because I know the download time would be long and I don't need the new version anyway.

My question is: how can I pin / keep the wine from being updated? I know "synaptics" has that function but other than installing synaptics are there ways to achieve that in kpackagekit or in apt?

[Rog131]

Re: How to keep a program from being updated in Kpackagekit or apt?

Synaptic locks are only used by the Synaptic.

You could pin/lock the version through the apt's /etc/apt/preferences. All apt based package managers (> FAQ: Package Managers) should respect the pinning.

> APT HOWTO / 3.10 How to keep specific versions of packages installed and an example > Re: Kernel-Images and Updates / Pinning version.

[kwokyinc]

Re: SOLVED: How to keep a program from being updated in Kpackagekit or apt?

Thanks Rog. It works !!

I hope Kpackagekit will add this function in their next version.

[Guest]

Re: SOLVED: How to keep a program from being updated in Kpackagekit or apt?

Still need this manual fix in Karmic... but it works for KPackageKit, thanks a lot!