Ubuntu

Removing Snap

First, let’s list all the snaps installed on your system with the following command:

snap list

Let’s also stop snapd (snap daemon) services:

sudo systemctl disable snapd.service
sudo systemctl disable snapd.socket
sudo systemctl disable snapd.seeded.service

Then, remove each Snap. It’s best to do so one-by-one, rather than all in one apt remove line. So something like:

sudo snap remove firefox
sudo snap remove snap-store
sudo snap remove gtk-common-themes
sudo snap remove gnome-3-38-2004
sudo snap remove core18
sudo snap remove snapd-desktop-integration

Specific to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

sudo snap remove firefox
sudo snap remove thunderbird
sudo snap remove ubuntu-app-center
sudo snap remove gtk-common-themes
sudo snap remove gnome-46-2404
sudo snap remove core24
sudo snap remove snapd-desktop-integration

Now, let’s delete any leftover snap cached data:

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/

Then purge or remove completely snapd using the following command:

sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd

Finally, using purge doesn’t touch your home directory, so you can optionally delete any files previously created in ~/Snap.

To do this, use the following command:

rm -rf ~/snap