Stellarium is removed when Lite updates is run

[justme2]

The latest version of Stellarium which will run on my eeePC is 0.11 (MESA version) which I install from a deb file. The version is locked in Synaptic but when I run 'Install updates' Stellarium 0.11 gets removed, including the menu entry. I then have to run the deb installer again. Can I stop this happening?

TIA

Edit: running command apt autoremove wants to remove stellarium and stellarium-data

$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libqt4-opengl libqt5opengl5 libqt5serialport5 stellarium
  stellarium-data
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 161 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

[gold_finger]

Not 100% sure, but think that in addition to locking it in Synaptic you need to put a hold on it with this command:

Code:

sudo apt-mark hold stellarium

I believe that will solve problem.  Run command, then run updates to make sure it worked and package doesn't get removed.


P.s.
It's a mystery to me why you need to do this at all.  Don't know why updates would arbitrarily remove something you installed with a .deb file.  Don't think I've run into that before.

[justme2]

Thanks gold_finger, that seems to have solved the problem. 

[gold_finger]

You're welcome -- glad it worked.  Thanks for remembering to mark the thread <SOLVED>.