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I want to prevent installation of lower version of the package over higher version using dpkg.

jokerdino
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dpkg has option --refuse-downgrade which will do just that.

(The apt tools have a different, more complex mechanism for managing version preferences, which resides in /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/preferences.d.)

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