Can't use apt-pinning (Hardy)

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Mumia W.
<paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Mumia W. wrote:
>> I'm trying to use apt-pinning under Ubuntu Hardy i386 to prevent myself
>> from accidentally installing a buggy library; however, this does not work:

Have you tried using Synaptic to accomplish the pin?   If it's not
available on the machine in question maybe you could do it on another
machine and see what it does?  I'm not able to help with that syntax
either, but thought using Synaptic might get you started...

Brian