Can't use apt-pinning (Hardy)

[Mumia W.]

Brian McKee wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks, but I like to do everything in aptitude since it's easier to 
keep a record of what's installed and uninstalled.