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Sybil
Asked: 2020-06-29 02:43:38 +0800 CST

'snap list' shows 3 installed packages, can I still purge snapd on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?

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I found with a search machine Safe to remove snap on Ubuntu Server?. In this posting his snap list output is empty. No installed packages.

At me the list not empty..

version, Raspberry Pi 4 hardware (64bit image):

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04 LTS"

snap info

snap list
Name    Version    Rev    Tracking         Publisher   Notes
core    16-2.45.1  9441   latest/stable    canonical✓  core
core18  20200427   1753   latest/stable    canonical✓  base
lxd     4.2        15763  latest/stable/…  canonical✓  -

What is this? What are core, core18 and lxd? Is it needed?

Is it still safe to do those cleanup commands?

sudo apt purge snapd
sudo apt autoremove
purge snap 20.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yes, it is safe.

    lxd is a container manager, the other two are the core runtime environment for snapd and the base snap, originally for Ubuntu 18.04.

    You can remove them the way you suggested without issues.

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