{"id":4478,"date":"2018-08-04T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T09:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2018-08-04T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T09:18:46","slug":"apt-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/08\/04\/apt-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"apt-mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking how to tell Debian to keep a couple of packages that it was going to remove as I asked to remove automatically installed packages. In fact sometimes you discover an interesting app or program that is required and\/or used by another one you actually want.<\/p>\n<p>It was as simple as <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">apt-mark manual $THE_PACKAGE_I_LIKE<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/463370\/how-to-install-a-package-without-marking-it-as-manually-installed#511013\">superuser<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I was looking how to tell Debian to keep a couple of packages that it was going to remove as I asked to remove automatically installed packages. In fact sometimes you discover an interesting app or program that is required and\/or used by another one you actually want. It was as simple as apt-mark manual&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/08\/04\/apt-mark\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-documentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-1ae","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1254,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/04\/06\/aptyum-cheatlist\/","url_meta":{"origin":4478,"position":0},"title":"apt\/yum cheatlist","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2016-04-06","format":false,"excerpt":"apt-cache se I'm actually doing the reverse: SwitchingToUbuntu\/FromLinux\/RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora\u00a0 but it's easy as a quick Ctrl-F or \/ Table of Equivalent Commands Below is a table of equivalent commands for package management on both Ubuntu\/Debian and Red Hat\/Fedora systems. 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