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I'm with my neighbor comments. How do you use Ubuntu without snaps? The base Ubuntu install already comes with several snaps. Installing random things through a
by tasuki 1y ago
I'm with my neighbor comments. How do you use Ubuntu without snaps? The base Ubuntu install already comes with several snaps. Installing random things through apt leads to snaps. I personally do not know how to avoid snaps on Ubuntu.
- justinclift 1y agoI made this snap "alternative" to solve this exact problem: https://github.com/justinclift https://github.com/justinclift Packaged as: https://github.com/justinclift/snapd-empty/releases/download/v0.1/snapd-empty-0.1.deb https://github.com/justinclift/snapd-empty/releases/download... It's just an empty package that tells the system snap is installed, to stop the broken dependency chains you otherwise get from force uninstalling snap. It's been working fine on a handful of Ubuntu 24.04 systems I've been handed and can't change the OS of, for about half a year now.
- justinclift 1y agoUgh, I somehow managed to paste an incorrect repo url in my comment above. It should be this: https://github.com/justinclift/snapd-empty/ https://github.com/justinclift/snapd-empty/
- mkesper 1y agoYou migrate to Debian. Everything else is a bandaid that can be rug pulled any time Canonical feels like doing so.
- tasuki 1y agoI've done that some years ago and couldn't be happier.
- L3viathan 1y agoYou uninstall all snaps, uninstall snapd, and block it from being installed via APT. Then you add e.g. the mozilla PPA such that its firefox package gets installed instead.