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will apt-get autoremove break other dependencies?

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I want to use apt-get autoremove to remove liba for instance, but I'm not sure whether it is smart enough to preserve other dependencies. For instance, if liba depends on libb, while libc also depends on libb, will

sudo apt-get autoremove liba

remove libb or not? Thanks in advance.

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answered 1 Year ago percol · Accepted Answer

None of the apt-get or other APT tools will ever break dependencies (except for bugs).

You don't run apt-get autoremove liba, just apt-get autoremove. The whole point of autoremove is that it discovers what there is to remove.

When you run apt-get autoremove, check the list of packages to make sure you aren't relying on any of the packages that it will remove. A package that you use all the time could have been pulled in as a dependency of another package without you having noticed that.