Reply To: XnView .deb, gdebi, Lintian output, & Lintian-brush

[scruffyeagleMember]

ModdIt wrote:

Package: *gdebi*:any      defines a rule for any version of gdebi
Pin: origin *             defines a rule for any origin
Pin-Priority: -1          -1 or other minus rule tells apt not to offer or install package as defined above.

Apt pinning is explained quite well at http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Apt-Pinning/ You can use an online translate
service. You can also search for apt preferences, the debian manual is not as easy to understand though.

My aim is to preveent users I support from following internet suggestions and installing gdebi.
Should they force an install they can fix the following self inflicted issues by themselves.

All users should have recent backups so are not helpless. or should not be anyway :-).

Thank you!

This thread could be marked as “solved”, by the way. I’d do it myself, but the javascript isn’t giving me the edit option for the original post.

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