I'm in a situation where the list of orphaned packages to be removed by apt-get autoremove includes a package that I want to keep. Apparently I have accidentally removed a package which was depending on it. How can I now mark the package as explicitly desired, so that apt-get autoremove will not remove it?
Use apt-mark
$ man apt-mark
...
manual
manual is used to mark a package as being manually installed, which will
prevent the package from being automatically removed if no other packages
depend on it.
So
sudo apt-mark manual <package-name>
Now autoremove won't remove it.
To undo
sudo apt-mark auto <package-name>
Now autoremove will remove the package if it is not a dependency of any other package.
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