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[Sorin Srbu]

On Wed, 2023-05-31 at 08:04 +0200, Lars Liedtke wrote:
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> Am 31.05.23 um 07:45 schrieb Sorin Srbu:
> > On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 09:40 -0500, Bill Walsh wrote:
> > 
> > > I have tried everything I can find on the internet to stop Snap.
> > > It
> > > still is determined to update Firefox, and whatever else
> > > possibly. It
> > > pops up a black blob in the upper right of the screen and if I
> > > don't
> > > get to it soon enough the message goes away and the only way I
> > > can
> > > get rid of it is to force a reboot.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions that aren't on Ubuntu online help and other web
> > > sources?
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Why don't you uninstall Fx-snap and instead add the inofficial
> > official
> > Firefox PPA and then install Fx from there?
> > 
> > IIRC Snap is pretty tightly incorporated with Ubuntu now - some apt
> > update-thingie is going on. Stopping Snap may prove detrimental for
> > the
> > rest of the OS.
> > 
> 
> I fear they will push more in that direction. But at the moment,
> there is nothing you have to have snap for AFAIK.
> But I hope things like certain restriction problems (like connection
> issues to the ssh-agent or keepassxc Browser-Plugin) will be fixed.
> 




sorin at laptop:~$ sudo apt remove snapd
[sudo] password for sorin: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n plasma-discover-backend-snap
snapd
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 103 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.


I apologize. I was pretty sure removing snapd would also remove
important bits of the OS as well, as I did try that a while ago when I
was pretty miffed with the slowness of Fx-snap. 
But apparantely not, according to the above output.





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