Taking Package out of update mechanism

Tim Frost timfrost at xtra.co.nz
Tue Jun 2 10:18:53 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:51 +0200, Sascha Effert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using kile to edit latex source code. In the version shipped with ubuntu 
> 9.04 (Kile 2.1) the spell checking is broken (it shows latex commends as 
> failures), at least in german. Therefore I installed the Version from ubuntu 
> 8.04 (2.0) which works quite good for me. My problem is now, that apt wants to 
> update it to version 2.1. Is there a way to tell apt, that I do not want 
> updates for this package? I tried to find a way using synaptic, but was not 
> successfull.

You can do this in Synaptic.  Select kile in the package list, then use
the menu to set Package->Lock version.  (Not sure what the German
equivalent of the menu options are)
> 
> bests
> 
> Sascha Effert



Tim

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