[kwlug-disc] sadness in Ubuntu land

[CrankyOldBugger]

I remember trying to remove snap itself in 20.04 and horribly mangling my
whole system.  I must have done something wrong, dunno, but I reinstalled
and just left snaps there.


On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 8:16 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 8:07 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This worked well, until I tried to run updates.  Apt updates forcibly (as
>> in, you can't stop it once it starts) removes the apt version of Firefox
>> and replaces it with the original Snap version.  The popup TUI basically
>> said that from now on I must use the Snap version.  You can imagine the new
>> words I invented when I saw that message come up...
>>
>> So.... what to do?   I've been an Ubuntu fan for many years, but this
>> latest move by Canonical really bakes my cookies.  Should I move over to
>> Fedora or some other distro that doesn't force their views on us?
>>
>
> I can't talk about 22.04, but on 20.04 I remove snap itself after I remove
> the Firefox snap (and something else, which I forgot).
>
> $ sudo apt purge snapd
>
> Then I don't bother ever again with snap or any snap installed software.
>
> I hope this is still possible with 22.04.
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