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)