Ubuntu and snap

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Friday, October 27, 2023  at 9:43, Chris Green wrote:
Re: Ubuntu and snap (at least in part)

>On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:16:37AM +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I've several CentOS 7 VPS that I want migrate to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I'm 
>> not new to Ubuntu LTS but I need some clarification about snap.
>> 
>> 1) Snap packages get update automatically, I can disable this behaviour? 
>> I don't like my server updating by itself.
>> 
>> 2) Suppose I install a software that is provided by a snap package. I 
>> discover that this software has a problem for my usage and I want to fix 
>> it. How I can do this? I should wait that Canonical release the new snap 
>> or I can modify the snap packages as I need? When using CentOS and 
>> Debian I can take the source package, apply a patch and recompile the 
>> packages when it is needed.
 
>> 3) I read Ubuntu PRO. The support is relative also to snap packages or 
>> only for packages inside base and universe repos?

>Not a detailed/direct answer to the above but on my [x]ubuntu systems
>I have simply removed the snap daemon (snapd) and this prevents any
>snap updates etc.  The only software that I (once) used on my systems
>that was updated via snap was Firefox and I have moved to Vivaldi for
>my main browser now so that doesn't matter.

I've done the same on Ubuntu-Unity 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 & 23.10 but went 
WaterFox for browser, for 18.04 I had to use PaleMoon (because that box is 
still 32bit)