I have this when trying to update and my settings have disappeared within Zorin.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
acl apg cmake-data colord-data dh-elpa-helper gdal-data
gnome-bluetooth-common gnome-control-center-data gnome-control-center-faces
gnome-online-accounts hplip-data libaec0 libarmadillo10 libarpack2 libblosc1
libcapi20-3 libcdio-cdda2 libcdio-paranoia2 libcfitsio9 libcharls2
libcolord-gtk1 libcolorhug2 libdc1394-25 libdecor-0-0
libdecor-0-plugin-1-cairo libfftw3-double3 libfreexl1 libfyba0 libgdcm3.0
libgeos-c1v5 libgeos3.10.2 libgeotiff5 libgnome-bluetooth13
libgoa-backend-1.0-1 libgphoto2-port12 libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12
libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 libhdf4-0-alt libieee1284-3 libjsoncpp25 libkmlbase1
libkmldom1 libkmlengine1 libldb2 libmysqlclient21 libnfs13 libodbc2
libodbcinst2 libogdi4.1 libopencv-core4.5d libopencv-imgproc4.5d libosmesa6
libpq5 libproj22 libqhull-r8.0 librhash0 librttopo1 librygel-core-2.6-2
librygel-db-2.6-2 librygel-renderer-2.6-2 librygel-server-2.6-2
libsane-common libsane-hpaio libsdl2-2.0-0 libsmbclient libsocket++1
libspatialite7 libsuperlu5 libsz2 libtalloc2 libtbb2 libtbbmalloc2
libtevent0 liburiparser1 libwbclient0 libxerces-c3.2
mobile-broadband-provider-info mysql-common network-manager-gnome proj-bin
proj-data python3-ldb python3-macaroonbakery python3-protobuf
python3-pymacaroons python3-renderpm python3-reportlab
python3-reportlab-accel python3-rfc3339 python3-talloc python3-tz rygel
samba-libs unixodbc-common
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
root@Zorin-lap:~#
How can i fix this without reinstalling zorin?
that worked.