Preventing specific app from updating (19) [SOLVED]

[JLC17]

Upgraded to Mint 19 last week. Plain sailing apart from the newest version of Pan newsreader, which is broken.

reinstalling the version from 18.3 sorted the problem. I went into Synaptic and locked the version there. However, whenever the Webmin software manager runs, it keeps flagging the newer version for installation.

Is there a way to stop this happening ?

[ajgringo619]

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sudo apt hold package_name

[Pjotr]

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sudo apt hold package_name

I suggest this slightly different command:

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sudo apt-mark hold package_name

In the case of Pan:

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sudo apt-mark hold pan

[richyrich]

If the Webmin software is bypassing Synaptic and the Update Manager, you will most likely need to delve into the Webmin documentation to find a way to disable it.

[gm10]

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sudo apt hold package_name

I suggest this slightly different command:

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sudo apt-mark hold package_name

Oh, is this a game of equivalent commands? I suggest

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apt hold package_name

Shortest, I win.

No but seriously, apt is a wrapper, it calls apt-mark internally, anyway. Same with sudo. So all of these are the same thing at the end of the day.

[Pjotr]

apt is a wrapper, it calls apt-mark internally, anyway. Same with sudo. So all of these are the same thing at the end of the day.

Well, I've learned something new.

[JLC17]

Thanks for all the replies guys.

just to note the apt-mark command did not seem to work.

However, in UpdateManager under "Preferences" there is a tab "Blacklist". Following a lucky guess, I added "pan" as an item, and now Webmin isn't picking up the update.

In case anyone who works on UpdateManager reads this (it might pop up in a google for "UpdateManager", it would make it easier if rather than having to freetype the package you want to blacklist, you could select it from a list of installed packages ?

Either way, this is solved,

[gm10]

In case anyone who works on UpdateManager reads this (it might pop up in a google for "UpdateManager", it would make it easier if rather than having to freetype the package you want to blacklist, you could select it from a list of installed packages ?

Assuming we are talking about Linux Mint's Update Manager now (so far you were talking about a Webmin software): Once there is an actual update for a package, you can right click that update in the list and blacklist it from there.

[JLC17]

In case anyone who works on UpdateManager reads this (it might pop up in a google for "UpdateManager", it would make it easier if rather than having to freetype the package you want to blacklist, you could select it from a list of installed packages ?

Assuming we are talking about Linux Mint's Update Manager now (so far you were talking about a Webmin software): Once there is an actual update for a package, you can right click that update in the list and blacklist it from there.

My original post was how to stop Webmin flagging up pan for update, since the version available is newer than the version I have installed (the new one has a nasty bug). There's nothing obvious in Webmin, and I had already locked the version in Synaptic, but Webmin was still showing "1 update available".

After loading UpdateManager, and experimenting, it seems "blacklisting" the package does whatever is needed for Webmin to think it's now up to date.

However UpdateManager blacklist has a ""/-" button, and you need to type a package name in (or I did) to add it.

[gm10]

After loading UpdateManager, and experimenting, it seems "blacklisting" the package does whatever is needed for Webmin to think it's now up to date.

However UpdateManager blacklist has a ""/-" button, and you need to type a package name in (or I did) to add it.

It's a bit weird that Webmin would ignore an apt hold but heed a Mint-specific setting, but at long as it works it's all good. Anyway, as I said, you can right-click blacklist as well, just open up the Mint Update Manager whenever Webmin is offering you an update to a package you do not want to update, that way you do not have to know the package name.