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How to prevent Ubuntu from making auto-updates?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 490 / 1 Year ago, tue, february 7, 2023, 5:03:39

I have the following problem.

Recently I have installed vim (which I compiled myself, as the one in the Ubuntu repositories are old). With it I installed Cscope and You-Complete-Me plugins.

Now everytime Ubuntu checks for updates, it wants to "upgrade" my vim and the vim You-Complete-Me plugin stops working (because it actually downgrades my vim...).

How can I tell Ubuntu to mind it's own bussiness and stop "upgrading" my vim? I don't want to deselect boxes each time there is some system update...

UPDATE: I have installed vim using the steps provided here: https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/wiki/Building-Vim-from-source

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answered 1 Year ago ticeate · Accepted Answer

To hold your installed version, prevent the package manager from automatically updating it in the future running this command in terminal:

echo "<packagename> hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

Change <packagename> with what package you wish (in your case may be vim).