apt-mark

Utility to change the status of installed packages.

• Mark a package as automatically installed:

sudo apt-mark auto {package_name}

• Hold a package at its current version and prevent updates to it:

sudo apt-mark hold {package_name}

• Allow a package to be updated again:

sudo apt-mark unhold {package_name}

• Show manually installed packages:

apt-mark showmanual

• Show held packages that aren't being updated:

apt-mark showhold

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