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How to prevent a package from being updated in Ubuntu

If you want to update all the packages other than one package in your Ubuntu system follow this procedure

There are three ways of holding back packages, with dpkg, aptitude or with dselect.

Using dpkg

Put a package on hold

sudo echo “package hold” | dpkg --set-selections

Example

sudo echo “apache2 hold” | dpkg --set-selections

Remove the hold

sudo echo “package install” | dpkg --set-selections

Example

sudo echo “apache2 install” ... read more ...

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