apt-mark

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}}

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

sudo apt-mark hold {{package}}

• Allow a package to be updated again:

sudo apt-mark unhold {{package}}

• Show manually installed packages:

apt-mark showmanual

• Show held packages that aren't being updated:

apt-mark showhold