Going back a package and keep it that way.

[hurt]

What i want to do is down grade a verison of libtiff installed on a system, and then keep it that way. meaning when i do a upgrade dont get that package.

does anyone know if this can be done? and if so how?
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[eccentric]

This is called putting a package on hold in debian. There is an easy way to do this in both dselect and aptitude I believe, but you can do it via the command line like so:

dpkg --get-selections \* > selections.txt

edit the selections.txt file and change the line for the package you want to hold. As an example, change the line libtiff install to libtiff hold. And then update the selections with the new file.

dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt


There is lots of good info in the debian faq an this and other package managment commands as well.

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html

[Guest]

Well this is some good info for sure.. Running unstable i could see how this would be of great use for when something i like gets a "bug" and has a very slow update team aka bitlbee.