Slávek Banko wrote on 3/3/20 11:29 AM:
Dne út 3. března 2020 Dan Youngquist napsal(a):
On 03/03/2020 09:18 AM, D. R. Evans wrote:
autoremove seems to have quite happily removed some of the actual installed binaries, not just no-longer-used .deb files.
That's what autoremove does. You're confusing it with autoclean, which removes old package files that can no longer be downloaded. You might want to reference the man page for apt-get.
Glad you got your desktop fixed.
I do not assume that D.R. was confused and used the autoremove instead of autoclean. Autoclean has a completely different task and has no effect on the installed packages at all - it just clean in /var/cache/apt - and it is usually better to use apt clean for that purpose anyway.
In any case, autoremove should be safe. I also commonly use it. Therefore, I am concerned that this is at least the second occurence when it had unexpected behavior.
What distribution and version do you use? The first thing that comes to my
debian stable, kept up-to-date.
I was installing something this morning (I don't even remember what, after all the kerfuffle of trying to get my desktop back), and as part of that process was given a long list of packages that apt said I could safely remove by using autoremove, and that would save >400MB. That's why I did it; I won't be doing it again [as long as I remember this experience].
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