An Article from It's Foss About 24.04 LTS

[wizardfromoz]

I remove snap from Ubuntu. I get everything off the traditional repos.

Have you tried that with Ubuntu 24.04? They have made it more difficult than ever.

Since I was last here, I have installed Joshua Peisach's Noble Cinnamon, and also the flagship, Ubuntu Desktop aka GNOME.

I have cobbled together ways to remove the snaps for Firefox and Thunderbird, remove snapd and the Snap Store, and install .deb versions of Firefox and Thunderbird using apt.

I am putting together a thread I will publish in Wizards Corner over my weekend, and link to it here.

Cheers and

Avagudweegend

Wizard

 

[kghose]

It looks like upgrading to 24.04 did not reinstall snap.

 

[wizardfromoz]

You're just not being quite clear enough for me, there.

So did you have 22.04 (or other, if so, which), and within that, remove snapd, and then upgrade to 24.04 from within the installed distro?

Have you run

snap list --all

and can you you tell us the output?

Thanks.

 

[kghose]

You're just not being quite clear enough for me, there.

So did you have 22.04 (or other, if so, which), and within that, remove snapd, and then upgrade to 24.04 from within the installed distro?

Sorry. I had 23.X. I uninstalled snap and removed all snaps. I then used the upgrade process to move to 24.04.

Have you run

snap list --all

and can you you tell us the output?

Thanks.

I've previously removed snap and the upgrade did not add it back.

 

[kc1di]

That's good news that snaps are not reinstalled on upgrade.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Not definite in the long-term, Dave, you'll see what I mean shortly.

@kghose - I may not have been clear enough in #23

Could you please run the command

snap list --all

and share the output with us?

I'd like to compare with the output for a couple of my distros, for an article I will be publishing here soon.

2. Can you tell me if there are files in your /var/log/unattended-upgrades folder?

Mine from Lubuntu 22.04 looks as follows

Thanks

Wizard

 

[kghose]

Sure @wizardfromoz

$ snap list --all
Command 'snap' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install snapd

$ ls -al /var/log/unattended-upgrades/
total 16
drwxr-x---  2 root adm    4096 Apr  1 08:49 .
drwxrwxr-x 18 root syslog 4096 Apr 28 18:50 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root adm       0 Apr  1 08:49 unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root adm    3393 Mar 24 01:07 unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 Apr  1 08:49 unattended-upgrades.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   1180 Mar 25 08:57 unattended-upgrades.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 Mar 24 01:08 unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log