I use Ubuntu for 12 years, and snap
in the recent releases of Ubuntu is really disgrace. It creates lots of problems. After an upgrade, Chromium does not start with the error:
chromium_chromium.desktop[122932]: snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be. Refusing to continue to avoid permission escalation attacks: Operation not permitted
If a package changes the configuration in a new version, it's its responsibility to make it work. Now, I have to reconfigure it after each start by
sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/*snap-confine*
How can I fully uninstall snap and re-install its packages by regular apt
?
I have not many packages handled by snap
.
snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
chromium 85.0.4183.121 1328 latest/stable canonical✓ -
core18 20200724 1885 latest/stable canonical✓ base
gnome-3-34-1804 0+git.3556cb3 60 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-36-gc75f853 1506 latest/stable canonical✓ -
snap-store 3.36.0-80-g208fd61 467 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
snapd 2.46.1 9279 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd
My question is how to safely remove snap
. From the snap list
, I see gnome
depends on snap
.
Best Answer
In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10, I removed
snapd
following this steps:Then, to avoid that other applications may reinstall it (
chromium-browser
is an example of application that restoressnapd
even if installed viaapt
) you can create a fileno-snap.pref
by issuing:sudo -H gedit /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-snap.pref
and then copying the following content in it: