What tools to work with pkgs installed thru snap system

[Peter Flynn]

On 04/12/2021 00:11, hput via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Personally I think that snap is a disaster.

I concluded this at my last full installation (Mint 21), when snapd
seemed to have hung while installing.

>> I have removed snap/snapd from all my Ubuntu family systems.
> 
> This [including snipped parts] sounds like something I might want to
> do.

I wish it were so simple.

> What happens to things that are now installed by snap on new install
> (or upgrade such as for me) such as firefox and several others I see
> from `snap list'
> 
> You just revert to apt/apt-get/aptitude?
> And all will go along smoothly?

I rely on pdftk, for example, for which no regular repo package has been
available for a few years, so it appears to be available only as a snap
application (or, presumably, as source, but I think last time I tried,
it wanted libraries that conflicted with my currently-installed system.

Snap just appeared on the scene, as far as I was concerned, so I'm not
even clear what it does or why it was felt to be needed.

Peter