The man pages for apt-get lists the switches to control what is upgraded and 
what is held back. In a Terminal window try "man apt-get"


> 
> From: "Leandro Tracchia" <ltracchia AT gmail DOT com>
> Date: 2008/11/13 Thu PM 02:50:49 GMT
> To: "BackupPC List" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] upgrading backuppc 3.0 to 3.1
> 
> if i "apt-get upgrade backuppc" on ubuntu 8.04 it will try to install
> backuppc 3.1. this is good and what i want. but it will also try to
> upgrade samba, samba-common, smbclient, and smbfs. i don't want to
> upgrade the samba packages because it as i posted before, my backups
> were crashing with backuppc 3.1 and samba 3.2.3
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
> net/msg12192.html).
> 
> how can i prevent apt-get from upgrade the samba packages???
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Leandro Tracchia <ltracchia AT gmail DOT 
> com> wrote:
> > can anyone give me or direct me to good instructions on upgrading
> > backuppc from 3.0 to 3.1 on ubuntu 8.04?? has anyone done this
> > successfully??
> >
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