Removing Snap from Ubuntu

By Dan Aukes

This is useful for stalled updates when installing ubuntu-desktop-minimal on a server. the firefox snap package seems to hang.


# Common snaps
sudo snap remove --purge amazon-ssm-agent
sudo snap remove --purge firefox
sudo snap remove --purge snap-store
sudo snap remove --purge lxd
sudo snap remove --purge core20
sudo snap remove --purge core18
sudo snap remove --purge snapd
sudo snap remove --purge core18
sudo snap remove --purge core22
sudo snap remove --purge snapd

sudo apt remove --autoremove snapd

cat << EOT | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
EOT

sudo apt update

rm -rf ~/snap
sudo rm -rf /snap
sudo rm -rf /var/snap
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/snapd

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