[thethirdnut]

Hi,

Is the below procedure the recommended route to keep the XBMC SVN PPA build current?

sudo apt-get remove xbmc*
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc
sudo apt-get install XBMC-live


I installed XBMC SVN PPA on top of minimal ubuntu and do NOT want to upgrade the kernel, ALSA, etc with every apt-get update that will break the work I am currently doing.

Thanks in advance.

[vikjon0]

Pretty sure that if you skip the remove and just to install on the package it will upgrade?

If you want to upgrade everyhing except kernel and alsa you can mark these packages to be held pack when do doing upgrade. If thats what you want I can dig up the syntax from my notes.

[thethirdnut]

Pretty sure that if you skip the remove and just to install on the package it will upgrade?

If you want to upgrade everyhing except kernel and alsa you can mark these packages to be held pack when do doing upgrade. If thats what you want I can dig up the syntax from my notes.

OK, thanks I will try that later.

I am running the apt-get over ssh...this is on a minimal ubuntu install; no desktop or other GUI.

[vikjon0]

apt-get and ssh is good.

BTW, to hold e.g. package grub

echo "grub hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections