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[xubuntu] autoremove; autoclean scared the sh#t out of me

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Went to do the autoremove and autoclean and saw this Quote: You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' Scared the absolute crap out of me, looks like it wanted to delete my x11 server. AlphaA (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 01/16/2013

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sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoremove

and localpurge. But I didn't remove anything (as I remember) by the last one. After reboot I have (look at attachment) an empty shell. Everything seems to be worked, but the shell is empty: no windows, no panels, no menus, nothing...

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[ubuntu] Why? 32 weeks 9 hours ago

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I am using gnome fallback as desktop.

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autoremove 16 weeks 6 days ago

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Tired of removing programs and apt-get autoclean or apt-get autoremove doesn't wipe them all out? dpkg --get-selections|grep deinstall will show all the list of remaining .debs. That could be a long list of files to remove individually, so here's a script I got help with to do that all at once.

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Missed the apt-get autoremove command? Yum can do it too with this simple line

Code: yum autoremove . Problem: that command is undocumented and a bug report is submitted: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951839