Usage
apt-mark
Most used commands:
auto - Mark the given packages as automatically installed
manual - Mark the given packages as manually installed
minimize-manual - Mark all dependencies of meta packages as automatically installed.
hold - Mark a package as held back
unhold - Unset a package set as held back
showauto - Print the list of automatically installed packages
showmanual - Print the list of manually installed packages
showhold - Print the list of packages on hold
Exemple
Exclude from update
apt-mark hold \
"linux-headers-5.17.0-kali3-arm64" \
"linux-headers-arm64" \
"linux-image-5.17.0-kali3-arm64" \
"linux-image-arm64"
Include from update
apt-mark unhold \
"linux-headers-5.17.0-kali3-arm64" \
"linux-headers-arm64" \
"linux-image-5.17.0-kali3-arm64" \
"linux-image-arm64"