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_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