debian man page for dpkg-hold

Query: dpkg-hold

OS: debian

Section: 8

Format: Original Unix Latex Style Formatted with HTML and a Horizontal Scroll Bar

DPKG-HOLD(8)							      dlocate							      DPKG-HOLD(8)

NAME
dpkg-hold - program to flag for hold a package or packages
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-hold [PACKAGE...]
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-hold marks package(s) to be held. It achieves this by running `dpkg --set-selections' and piping in the package name(s) followed by `hold'. NOTE: this program does not install, remove, purge any package. it ONLY sets the status of the package. Any actual removal or purging is done the next time dselect, apt-get, aptitude, etc are run.
SEE ALSO
dpkg(1), dpkg-unhold(1), dpkg-remove(1), dpkg-purge(1)
AUTHOR
dpkg-hold was written Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>. dpkg-hold is Free Software placed in the public domain. Debian Project 2009-06-02 DPKG-HOLD(8)
Related Man Pages
dpkg-reconfigure(8) - opendarwin
dpkg-reconfigure(8) - posix
dpkg-genbuilddeps(1) - netbsd
dpkg-reconfigure(8) - freebsd
dpkg-genbuilddeps(1) - xfree86
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