Avoid no network issue

Question

As explained here How can I fix Networking, Wi-Fi and Ethernet, not being available after update? there is a regression bug that will cause some systems to lose network entirely.

Lewis' excellent answer solves the issue, but after applying it I am immediately requested by the system to upgrade the downgraded libraries:

As far as I can tell, I have the Poposed repository[*] deselected:

Lewis says to "so comment out the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list", but I'm not sure which lines he is referring to.

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[*]: I actually have all of the repositories in the Updates tab deselected. Is this how they should show?

Answer 1

Well, quoting this awesome answer on askubuntu, you have to mark the packages on hold:

sudo apt-mark hold libnl-3-200 libnl-genl-3-200 libnl-route-3-200

That worked for me really great