Pinning package using own repository and apt-get
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I created my own repository so I can provide a newer version of a package than the one the Ubuntu repository currently holds. Everything works fine, with the exception that I have to specify the version when installing it: sudo apt-get install package=1.2.1 If I don't specify the version, then it will install it from Ubuntu's repository. I tried to put my repository at the top of the sources.list but it doesn't make any difference. So I'm wondering if there's a flag when building the .deb package that will give priority to my repository at all times? or a flag in the actual repository? I'd prefer not having the user to change their /etc/apt/preferences to set the priority, nor using apt-get -t repo . I tried to install the Tor browser given this instructions and it does ins...