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It’s easy. Just trick your package manager into prioritizing a nonexistent version of snapd so every time a package tries to install the snap version of that thing, the dependencies fail over and over.
Don’t forget to snap remove each individual snap first, and don’t forget the special argument to force it to actually clean everything up, because otherwise it leaves broken trash all over the place, constantly spams your journal, and makes your system state present as Degraded with all the failed unit files and zfs cache pointers that point to nothing.
Oh and one more thing (at least), you have to rip out the /etc/apt/preferences.d file that Ubuntu places and will probably try to automatically repair that redirects apt install calls to snap install whenever possible.
it’s very easy to disable and use alternative sources
Is it? Easy? How does one do that?
apt purge snapdIf you use firefox there’s an official mozilla PPA you can add to get normal packages back, not sure about other browsers.
There’s also another apt command to “hold” and/or pin the snapd package so it won’t accidentally get reinstalled later.
It’s easy. Just trick your package manager into prioritizing a nonexistent version of snapd so every time a package tries to install the snap version of that thing, the dependencies fail over and over.
Don’t forget to
snap removeeach individual snap first, and don’t forget the special argument to force it to actually clean everything up, because otherwise it leaves broken trash all over the place, constantly spams your journal, and makes your system state present as Degraded with all the failed unit files and zfs cache pointers that point to nothing.Oh and one more thing (at least), you have to rip out the /etc/apt/preferences.d file that Ubuntu places and will probably try to automatically repair that redirects apt install calls to snap install whenever possible.
Child’s play.