The last time I used sudo apt-get autoremove
, nearly every important display driver or parts got deleted. This made me very squeamish about using the command again. However, each time I install something or use apt-get update
the terminal reads:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
devilspie libturbojpeg:i386 libxrandr-ltsr2 language-pack-kde-en
kde-l10n-engb language-pack-kde-en-base libxv1:i386 libllvm3.2
libllvm3.2:i386 linux-generic-lts-raring
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
I tried the command clean
and the messages stops displaying for a while. My question is whether it's safe running the autoremove
command, or will I lose everything once again? Is there a way of checking how safe it is to use autoremove
in this particular (or any) case?
autoremove
itself will only remove left over dependencies of packages you no longer have. If you uninstalled a main package (like Ubuntu desktop)autoremove
might have gotten confused and removed other things it didn't think you needed anymore. I've usedautoremove
a lot and never had any problems.