How to blacklist packages?

[OtherCrashOverride]

Is there a way to blacklist the Mono packages in Raspbian so they do not get inadvertently installed?

[rpdom]

You could try apt pinning.

Putting something like

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Package: *mono*
Pin: version *
Pin-Priority: -1

in a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d should do the trick, I think. See man apt-preferences for how this works.

The Package line will match any package with "mono" in its name (be careful, there may be other packages that have that string in.

The Pin line will match any version of that package.

The Pin-Priority line means never install the matching packages.