How to remove all the firefox (and other) cruft in /snap etc.?

[Sorin Srbu]

On Thu, 2023-12-21 at 20:11 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> Having removed snapd from my [x]ubuntu system I had hoped it would be
> really gone, but apparently not, there's loads of stuff in /snap and
> in the udev rules (/etc/udev.d/snap.firefox.rules) that haven't gone.
>
> Surely if I purge firefox it should take all this junk with it.
>
> How can I safely clear it out?

Hello,

IIRC, there are parts of the apt-system that uses snapd.
Removing snapd might bork your system.

I've wanted to remove snap altogether as well a while ago, but it is
pretty embedded in the OS - I gave up.



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