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Newbie question here: How do you decline updates and prevent them from being re-presented next time the system checks for updates?

ldp wrote:Newbie question here: How do you decline updates and prevent them from being re-presented next time the system checks for updates?

What do you exactly mean, updates in general or certain packages in particular?

If you want to exclude certain packages from the update, there is the /etc/urpmi/skip.list file.
Either put the exact package names between the slashes or use regular expressions, to exclude a bunch of packages.

Oliver

@alf: Specific packages that aren't relevant like certain language files. I'm being offered 'autocorr' files for various languages.

@seneca: You have to manually update a list "for every update you do not want???!!!"

Thanks for the replies.

if you have just installed you may remove such packages by

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remove-unused-packages

in a terminal as root, this prevents for further updates.

If you haven't installed those specific packages? Is there a quick way to stop them being prevented or blacklist them?

Thanks

Well, remove-unused-packages removes all language files except your choosen language as well the unneeded hardware-drivers.

@alf

Ran remove-unused-packages as root (as you suggested), and then urpme --auto-orphans, and voila, the packages were no longer offered. Excellent. Solved!

Thanks a million!