Portable software packaging in Linux is now emerging. There are, at least three most popular portable software packages in Linux: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap. Beside the security promised by the technology, based on my experience, those portable packages are still far from mature, especially the speed. Unfortunately, Ubuntu is pushing Snap as the default alternate package manager beside APT. There are basic apps now delivered as snap by default: Chromium and Firefox. If you prefer APT, you could disable Snap permanently from your Ubuntu system. Here are the steps to get rid snap from your Ubuntu: 1. Uninstal snap sudo apt-get purge snapd* 2. Disable snap in apt preferences Use your favorite text editor: sudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref Put this line of codes: Package: snapd Pin: release a=* Pin-Priority: -10 Save the file. 3. Update apt sudo apt update Now, everytime you try to install a package related or depends on snap, you will get an error. Alternatively, you have to ...
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