On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 14:53, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> Aww man, that's a big long man page discussing priorities and tracking,
> and a bunch of other stuff I don't care about right now.  I just want to
> tell apt, "hey, just ignore gaim.  Don't touch it."  Can't someone give
> me quick one-liner for that?  I'm so lazy...

Add these lines to /etc/apt/preferences:

    Package: gaim
    Pin: version <version>
    Priority: 9000

where <version> is the version number for the currently installed gaim
such as 1:0.58-2.3.

Corey



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