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Recently had to reinstall my system because of an update to the nvidia driver preventing the system from booting. I don't want to have to start all over again every time the nvidia driver updates.

I am unsure how to hold the drivers from update and to find out the name of every item I need to hold to prevent a re occurrence.

Any full instructions would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Andrew

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TL;DR Use this command:

sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-346

Example:

% sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-346  
nvidia-346 set on hold.

And the unhold:

sudo apt-mark unhold nvidia-346

Example:

% sudo apt-mark unhold nvidia-346
Canceled hold on nvidia-346.

From man apt-mark

hold
   hold is used to mark a package as held back, which will prevent the package from being automatically installed, upgraded or removed. The command is only a wrapper around dpkg --set-selections and the state is
   therefore maintained by dpkg(1) and not affected by the --file option.

unhold
   unhold is used to cancel a previously set hold on a package to allow all actions again.
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