How to prevent Nvidia 535 driver from updating

You can use apt-mark showhold to see what is held.

In my post I noticed issues with new packages in spite of holding 550 - including very similar packages to what you are seeing.

You'll need to go deeper and "pin" linux-objects-nvidia-like packages; e.g. create a file /var/lib/apt/preferences.d/99-block-objects-nvidia:

Package: linux-objects-nvidia-*
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1

You might also need to do the same for modules (although I believe pinning objects will be enough).

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