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