Comment 0 for bug 1583591

Ex.
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
[sudo] password for doug:
doug@doug-HP-Pavilion-Notebook:~$ sudo apt autoremove
[sudo] password for doug:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

doug@doug-HP-Pavilion-Notebook:~$ sudo apt remove ubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apturl apturl-common cheese gir1.2-rb-3.0 gir1.2-secret-1 gnome-video-effects gstreamer1.0-alsa
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps libdmapsharing-3.0-2 libexiv2-14 libgexiv2-2 libgpod-common libgpod4 libraw15
  librhythmbox-core9 libsgutils2-2 media-player-info nautilus-share python3-mako rhythmbox rhythmbox-data
  rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist rhythmbox-plugins shotwell shotwell-common snapd squashfs-tools ubuntu-core-launcher
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ubuntu-desktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 46.1 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: apt 1.2.10ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 19 08:35:52 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-26 (22 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)