How do I prevent a manually installed package being upgraded?

[Mark Greenwood]

Hi All,

I've just built Amarok from the Kubuntu source package by the normal method (fakeroot debain/rules binary) and installed it using sudo dpkg -i.

Now, althought the package I've built and installed has the same version number as the one in the repository, if I do apt-get upgrade it tells me amarok will be updated. But bizarrely the package amarok-common, which was also built at the same time and installed in the same way, doesn't come up as a potential upgrade.

apt-cache policy amarok
amarok:
  Installed: 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1
  Candidate: 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1
  Version table:
     2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/main Packages
 *** 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:2.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu2~jaunty2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
     2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

apt-cache policy amarok-common
amarok-common:
  Installed: 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1
  Candidate: 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.1.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu1~jaunty1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-backports/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:2.1mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu2~jaunty2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
     2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

How do I prevent amarok from being upgraded by apt-get upgrade? And why is only one of the two packages being presented as an upgrade? It looks like something is wrong somewhere.

Thanks,

Mark