Utility to change the status of installed packages. More information: https://manpages.debian.org/latest/apt/apt-mark.8.html.
- 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