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Want only 4.13.0-19 generic or anything other than 32 until nVidia fixes CUDA toolkit

Back in December I downloaded and burned an Ubuntu install CD that had kernel 4.13.0-19-generic. I built two minimal servers and they worked fine with nVidia CUDA.RUN package. I recently tried ...
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Remove package installed with checkinstall from software updater [duplicate]

How can I stop software installed using checkinstall from being updated in the software updater? In my case, I install emacs from source via checkinstall and set the version to 26. I have removed all ...
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How do I prevent apt from attempting to update a manually configured and installed package? [duplicate]

I have a custom NGINX setup (some additional 3rd party modules), and I don't want Ubuntu to think it needs to be 'updated' to its version that doesn't have the modules I need. How do I stop Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu crashes to blank screen

After a number of updates on 15/10/23, my system now crashes to a totally blank screen, sometimes immediately I try to login, sometimes later, even if no applications running. I can get a stable ...
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sudo apt-get install g++ FAILS ... don't know what to do [duplicate]

I'm trying to install the g++ compiler on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, and I get the following: $ sudo apt-get install g++ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state ...
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How to really disable Thunderbird updates? [duplicate]

In Ubuntu 22.04, I want to stop Thunderbird from updating due to this bug which prevents access to MS 365 (needed for my professional email). I followed the instructions and downgraded Thunderbird to ...
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Disable MySQL updates on Ubuntu 18.0 [duplicate]

I have a specific MySQL version installed and want to disable any updates as a recent update seems to have messed up my existing config files. When I run apt-get update I do see errors so I think the ...
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emacs issue with fontconfig-config_2.13.1

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.1. I recently installed the emacs snap. When I run emacs, I get many Fontconfig errors and warnings. I looked for a solution and found a suggestion to regress to ...
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Is it possible to mark a PPA as "do not upgrade"? [duplicate]

I needed a feature in the latest version of a program (kicad) so I added the "live" PPA and successfully downloaded & upgraded. But I don't need the very latest all the time, and the upgrades are ...
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Creating a repo server with older Ubuntu release

I have an installer service that uses the Ubuntu mirror to install a cluster of servers that use Ubuntu as the OS. The packages that were bundled with the application/installer are not compatible now ...
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UEFI cant get the db list

All of a sudden I can't boot up the system any more. I get the message: How do I proceed from here? Is this a hardware defect? Thanks.
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hold package and automatically hold dependancies used by the package

How to prevent updating of a specific package? shows me how to hold a specific package. But how can I hold a package including all its dependancies. Well, just holding a package wont help, because if ...
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Vim in /usr/local Keeps Getting Overwritten After apt-get upgrade

I have manually compiled vim following the instructions on https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/wiki/Building-Vim-from-source. I changed the configure step to include --prefix=/usr/local and then ...
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Upgrading all packages except Gnome [duplicate]

I would like to know if there is a specific command to upgrade my whole system except Gnome with sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. In a previous post I found the following command to ...
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Disable Auto Update JDK 7 Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]

I have installed JDK 7 in Ubuntu via following commands sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-...
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