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.

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