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Pinning is an advanced package management technique that allows you to remain on a stable release while grabbing packages from a more recent version.

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Install packages from newer release without building (apt pinning)

I need these packages with the latest upstream version backported for…
Janning
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How to only install updates from a specific repository?

How do I limit the updates that are installed to those from a specific set of repositories? Is this at all possible?
Ton van den Heuvel
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How to remove systemd from Ubuntu 16.04 and prevent its usage

I was able to enable upstart and disable systemd with commands that follows, but I was not able to prevent its auto re-installation when invoking apt-get install lxde (I am used to a serious server configuration without complex gui or without gui at…
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How do I add a repository, but only for a specific package/version and its dependencies?

I would like to use the Natty Narwhal repository for puppet packages, but I don’t want to upgrade my whole server. Is that possible ? My current solution is to fetch the .deb packages by hand
cslavoie
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What is more reliable - apt-mark or APT-pin (/etc/apt/preferences.d/pin) for version locking?

Usually on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I lock package versions with APT-pin functionality. For example if I want to pin meld to version 1.5.3-1ubuntu1 I create the following pin-file: cat <
N0rbert
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How do I include a comma in an Apt pin definition?

I'd like to create an Apt preference file with a pin definition that matches packages originating from Google, Inc.. The following definition doesn't seem to be doing anything: Package: * Pin: release o=Google, Inc. Pin-priority: 900 I suspect that…
ændrük
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Pin kernel version

I have ubuntu 16.04; Installed kernel linux-image-4.13.0-31 update, but I didn't like it, so I decided I want to keep using 4.13.0-26 for now. How can I prevent the update from affecting the kernel version?
nosklo
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System Center icon doesn't show when pinned to launcher

On Natty Narwhal, I dragged System Center to the launcher. Instead of an icon, I get a blank square on the launcher. Clicking on it does launch the system center, though. This issue does not happen with other apps I pinned to the launcher.
Anand Ramanathan
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How to hold a package back from being upgraded?

Possible Duplicate: How to forbid a specific package to be updated? I don't want my kernel or grub updated until I do it manually. Is this possible in Ubuntu (10.04, I suppose)?
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Pinning a specific PPA from Launchpad

I'm attempting to raise the priority of packages from the Ondrej PHP PPA from 500 to 1000. I attempted this: Package: * Pin: o=LP-PPA-ondrej-php,a=bionic,n=bionic,c=main,b=amd64 Pin-Priority: 1001 But apt did not understand the Pin…
Tom J Nowell
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How to prevent package removal upon upgrade to new Ubuntu version?

I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 from 10.04, but the upgrade removed some of my packages that I had manually installed. These package (Dekiwiki from Mindtouch amongst others) are not supported by Canonical. The removal of this packages resulted in…
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Apt pinning is pinning all sources

I've installed a PPA, ondrej/php5, so I can install PHP 5.5 on a Ubuntu 12.04 server. However, I want to install Apache 2.2, and the above PPA provides Apache 2.4. I created the file /etc/apt/preferences.d/apache2: Package: *apache* Pin: release…
Brandon - Free Palestine
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How can I make sure that pinning with apt-get is compatible with virtual packages?

In order to allow php5.2 being used on lucid, I created a ppa (ppa:txwikinger/php5.2) and build several php5.2 packages there. In order to prefer those packages I have given instructions to pin them. However, the packages php5-mcrypt and php5-imap…
txwikinger
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How do I pin a particular MySQL version to avoid unnecessary upgrades?

I'm running a MySQL server, and want to keep it up to date with regular apt-upgrades. I don't want this to cause MySQL to upgrade unless I'm doing it during scheduled downtime! How do I alter my apt-preferences so that this won't happen? I've tried…
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Is it possible to pin source packages? If so, how?

Given this /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ cosmic main restricted universe multiverse deb …
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