Comments on: How to prevent a package from being updated in Ubuntu

By: BarkingFish

BarkingFish — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:38:40 +0000

I think you’ll also find that you don’t need to use the ” ” around the name of the package. I tried that and got this: dpkg: error: illegal package name at line 1: package name in specifier ‘“firefox’ is illegal: must start with an alphanumeric character

I tried it without the quote marks, and it worked. The package i wanted to stop was firefox, and I used this command:

echo firefox hold: sudo dpkg --set-selections

By: GD

GD — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:21:19 +0000

You probably meant:

Knowing the status of your packages
sudo dpkg --get-selections

By: fafifoernik

fafifoernik — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:38:16 +0000

You probably meant:
echo “apache2 hold” |sudo dpkg --set-selections