Besides setting files in /etc/apt
, you can run apt-mark
to prevent anything requiring snapd
from installing, just after purge snapd:
$ sudo apt-mark hold snapd
For example, installing firefox
in Ubuntu 22.04 (which is a snapd-based package) gives you an error:
$ sudo apt install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox : PreDepends: snapd but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
The only way to break this rule is to do it explicitly:
$ sudo apt install snapd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
snapd
The following held packages will be changed:
snapd
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 102 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Also, you can undo the effect via:
$ sudo apt-mark unhold snapd