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. Ciao Brian On 5/24/19 3:33 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
Brian O'Keefe writes:
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.
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'
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