Update Manager updates manually installed application by another one

[bill goldberg]

ING HomeBank is an internet banking application from the ING bank.

They offer a .deb package for Ubuntu (that needs some tweaking to work) found here:
https://download.ing.be/software/homebank/offline/downloadLinux.asp?lang=EN

After installation, update manager pops up and says it has an update for HomeBank.

I pressed apply, not realising at the time that manually installed applications can't get updates.

So now my manually installed HomeBank application is gone (it was located in /opt, and even the /opt folder is gone) and replaced by another application called HomeBank from the Ubuntu repositories.

uname -a:
Linux desktop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

That's Ubuntu 9.04

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

that is a tricky problem. update-manager should update packages, even if they are locally installed (they might be fetched as a selected backport etc). The best option is probably to ask ING homeback to change their packagename to somehting more unique (like ing-homebank)

[bill goldberg (billgoldbergmania)]

I send ING an email about this issue, but if they will take my advise and change the name of the package is another thing.

Either way, a solution for this is to lock HomeBank ,after installing it, in Synaptic.

If you need to use the ING HomeBank and want to use the HomeBank from the repositories, you can use this to install ING HomeBank:

sudo mkdir /bin/ING
sudo dpkg -i –instdir=/opt/ING /home/$USER/HomeBank333.deb