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    For this kind of thing, I rather use aptitude: aptitude search '~S~i ~V ^24\.2\.6-1$' (add -F '%p %v for the list to have package name and version). Replace search with hold to hold them Commented Nov 20 at 17:18
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    I haven't used apt in a while, so I don't know if it has something, but would you be open to a scripting solution? This is really quite east to script and once you've done the work of scripting it once, you never need to do that websearch again. Commented Nov 20 at 18:36
  • Thanks! @terdon I have 5+ apt based systems, and this is so general that it can come up on any of them, at which point I fear it'd be as quick to search the web as to find, potentially transfer, and use a custom script (not to mention recalling its existence). I think something builtin that I can remember is what would help the most. Commented Nov 23 at 16:53