Prevent new Ubuntu upgrade to reinstall MySQL

Question

Upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to the next version seems to reinstall Mysql. Any way to ignore MySQL install during OS Update?

Related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/592138/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-release-while-keeping-versions-of-already-installed-packag By the way, 11.04 [crossed the EOL line](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2012-October/000165.html) more than 5 years ago! — Melebius, Apr 25 '18 at 12:17
Please kindly backup data and re-install fresh your system is EOL for over 5 years and a lot would have changed since then — George Udosen, Apr 25 '18 at 14:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '18 at 12:03

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if you want to avoid that apt-get upgrade update certain package, you can "hold" it in the following way:

Hold a package (do not upgrade):

sudo apt-mark hold <package-name>

disable hold (upgrade package the usual way):

sudo apt-mark unhold <package-name>

for MySQL:

sudo apt-mark hold mysql-server

answered Apr 25 '18 at 12:03

spaceman117X

So I run this command then the upgrade one – Liron Harel Apr 25 '18 at 12:14
Error: first argumente must be markauto, unmarkauo or showauto – Liron Harel Apr 25 '18 at 12:19
Never had such issue before. On my Mint18 works just fine: `user@server ~ $ sudo apt-mark hold mysql-server [sudo] password for user: mysql-server set on hold. ` – spaceman117X Apr 25 '18 at 12:44

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