How to get a list of installed packages held back from upgrade?
You can use apt-mark
:
apt-mark showhold
this will show the packages that are kept in "hold" state so that the pacakge manager won't auto upgrade the packages.
From man apt-mark
:
showhold
showhold is used to print a list of packages on hold
Use dpkg
dpkg -l | grep "^hi"
The -l
means to list all packages which are then piped into grep.
The regular expression "^hi"
means to search for all lines that begin with "hi" which are initials for "hold" and "installed".
By default, dpkg -l
will list the status, package name, version, architecture, and a short description.