To my knowledge, there are 3 categories of reasons for packages being kept back during apt upgrade. 1) It is marked as held back. apt-mark can do this: sudo apt-mark hold <package> hold is used to mark a package as held back, which will prevent the package from being automatically installed, upgraded or removed.

Thus the need for a rollback. The short answer - you could use the following command: if it does what you want remove the -s (aka --dry-run) and run it again. Here are the steps I took to get this working properly: I temporarily trimmed my /var/log/dpkg.log to leave just today's upgrade.

Jun 14, 2012 · When using Debian there is a tool apt-revert where you have a CLI to select which apt call should be reverted. This can, of course, only work in general, if all old package versions are still available, even if already deleted locally.

Jan 19, 2016 · My misadventures on Debian/Ubuntu Linux created a messy situation. Here is how applied rollback to an apt-get upgrade.

Aug 5, 2020 · Explain how to hold back (blacklist) packages on an Ubuntu / Debian Linux to prevent updating a specific package when using apt/apt-get.

Feb 26, 2020 · Is there a way to take a snapshot of the packages installed with apt/apt-get on a Debian/Ubuntu system, and to roll back to that snapshot later? My use case is the following: I'd like to write a script that will build a program with large set of build dependencies.

Oct 9, 2019 · apt refuses to downgrade packages which you already have installed, unless you ask to do it explicitly. One way to do this, as you found out, is to specify each version manually in the install command.

Sep 20, 2023 · $ sudo apt install unattended-upgrades $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades; Forcing a specific package upgrade: If you want to manually override the kept back status for a package, you can use the –only-upgrade option. This way, the specific package will be forced to upgrade: bash sudo apt install --only-upgrade vol1.2-linuxconfig-1.0

Mar 1, 2021 · Jack Wallen shows you how to get around an apt issue that, if handled incorrectly, could cause you problems down the road. Have you ever run sudo apt-get upgrade, only to be told there are...

May 4, 2019 · Using apt-mark, you can change how a package is marked, protecting it from (or making it eligible for) auto-removal. If a package is marked "hold", it is held back: The package cannot be installed, upgraded, or removed until the hold mark is removed. The selection state of a package can be: install: this package is marked for installation.