See here. Basically:
dpkg --list apt-cache showpkg packagename apt-get install packagename=version echo "packagename hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
See here. Basically:
dpkg --list apt-cache showpkg packagename apt-get install packagename=version echo "packagename hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
Today learned about the dpkg -s command, e.g.
# dpkg -s kde-baseapps
Read about checking your Ubuntu version today and was reminded of lsb_release -a.
Been reading up on software versioning.