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<p>Thanks! Yes, I did mean dist-upgrade and thanks for catching
that. I will give your instructions a try. I may use a virtual
machine to be sure I know what I'm doing. I am used to apt and
apt-get and the command line.</p>
<p>Ciao</p>
<p>Brian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/24/19 3:33 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Brian O'Keefe writes:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> I'd like to run "apt dist-update" but I don't want to upgrade FF as I'm
using FF52 ESR as any newer version doesn't support some add-ons I want
to keep. Hence I never upgrade it though if the add-ons maintainers
adapt to the new FF I certainly will too.
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I'm assuming you mean dist-upgrade, since dist-update isn't a valid
apt command (at least on my system, it says Invalid operation).
You can tell apt to "hold" a package, so it won't install a new
version on top of what you already have:
sudo aptitude hold firefox-esr
(or whatever the package name is that you want to hold.
Apparently you can also use sudo apt-mark hold firefox-esr,
if you don't have aptitude installed, though personally I've only
set holds with aptitude.
You should probably hold all the firefox-esr-related packages
you have installed, so get a list with
aptitude search firefox-esr | grep '^i'
or
apt list --installed 'firefox-esr*'
to see if you need to hold any additional packages.
I don't know for sure that any of this will work with the GUI
update manager you're using, but it works for apt-get dist-upgrade
from the command line.
You can see your held packages with
aptitude search '~ahold'
...Akkana
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