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I tried to install Firefox – I deleted the version 4 in hope to install firefox 5 later – but got this error

libnss3-ld dependency ...

I decided to do this 

sudo apt-get install libnss3-ld

and went away. When I came back this command had deleted almost everything, drivers, programs, et cetera.

I never thought that apt-get install could delete anything.

Why did it happen?

Mehper C. Palavuzlar
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    It [shouldn't delete anything](http://superuser.com/questions/287348/why-does-apt-get-sometimes-asks-for-confirmation/287357#287357), unless you give it the `-y` option, and even then it wouldn't remove essential stuff. What exactly has been deleted? – slhck Aug 17 '11 at 13:23
  • all programs, network driver, that's when I pressed Ctrl+C – Sergey Aug 17 '11 at 13:36
  • `apt` has just decided to go nuclear and delete every package I had installed, including my desktop environments, and apparently my user account, so no logging in for me – Yonatan Avhar May 10 '21 at 21:17

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