To upgrade nearly all packages with apt-get but “hold” some of them at the current version, you can use dpkg. Let’s say I would like to upgrade my Debian or Ubuntu system with apt-get and here is what I’m getting: % sudo apt-get upgrade [...] apt apt-transport-https apt-utils ghostscript ghostscript-cups ghostscript-x google-chrome-beta hal indicator-applet nvidia-current-modaliases [...]
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