Version Lock Does Not Work With a dist-upgrade

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From what I gather, Synaptic only affects things done with Synaptic -- it won't stop other package handlers from doing things.  (Why?  I don't know.)  The better way seems to be by doing either of these two commands:

Code:

sudo apt-mark hold gqview

Or

Code:

echo gqview hold | dpkg --set-selections

(Note: some sets of instructions have quotations around "gqview hold"; others don't -- so I don't think it matters which way you choose.)

There is also something called "Pinning" packages, but I'm not entirely clear on the usage of it.  Here's some further info to look through:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto
http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how...ic-package
http://linuxaria.com/pills/how-to-stop-p...ux?lang=en