On 03/03/2020 10:29 AM, Sl�vek Banko wrote: > I do not assume that D.R. was confused and used the autoremove instead > of autoclean. I didn't assume. In both posts he described autoclean's function, but said he expected autoremove to do it. On 03/03/2020 11:21 AM, D. R. Evans wrote: > 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. Slavek is correct that autoremove shouldn't have uninstalled packages that were still in use, but I'm wondering if maybe there was a good reason it thought they were no longer required. Since you installed Trinity, have you uninstalled any of the metapackages, but left the packages they installed? That would make apt-get think the packages they installed were no longer needed, and autoremove would uninstall them.