Hi,

> I accidentally added a '-' to the apt install command and it wants to remove 
> the installed packages and it's dependencies.

thanks for reporting that apt works as expected for you :)!

https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/apt/apt.8.en.html

install, remove, purge (apt-get(8))
Performs the requested action on one or more packages specified via regex(7), 
glob(7) or exact match. The requested action can be overridden for specific 
packages by append a plus (+) to the package name to install this package or a 
minus (-) to remove it. 

-nik

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