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

Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu at ki.se
Fri Dec 22 11:20:55 UTC 2023


On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 09:31 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:52:01AM +0000, Sorin Srbu via ubuntu-users
> wrote:
> > 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 removed snapd several versions ago and have had no problems at all.
> It's just the junk below /snap I was wondering about getting rid of
> as
> well.
> 

Ah, I see. I was a bit too worried to proceed when I saw the apt stuff.
It might have been nothing though.



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