<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks everyone for the feedback. I just have to be more careful. I have installed packages directly from .deb files, (at least Dropbox and possibly others), and the software that I was installing when it happened is the latest version of KiCAD from their repository.</div><div><br></div><div>Brent<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 16:29, Znoteer via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 03:31:04PM -0500, R. Brent Clements wrote:<br>
> I installed a piece of software using the command line yesterday, and apt<br>
> reported a long list of packages that it claimed were redundant and could<br>
> be removed with "sudo apt autoremove". I didn't look very closely at the<br>
> list, and when I ran the program and saw some of the packages being removed<br>
> I became concerned. I rebooted the computer to discover that the entire<br>
> desktop system had been removed, and my computer booted into the command<br>
> line login prompt.<br>
> <br>
<br>
You might be able to determine what happened by looking in the logs. This<br>
is from Debian, but it should be the same on Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
/var/log/dpkg.log<br>
/var/log/aptitude<br>
/var/log/apt/history.log<br>
/var/log/apt/term.log<br>
<br>
If you use unattended-upgrades, there might also be something interesting in <br>
<br>
/var/log/unattended-upgrades/<br>
<br>
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Znoteer<br>
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