Removing Disabled Snaps

[JeffRedd]

To remove disabled snaps check them out first

At the terminal -----> snap list

Do you notice all the disabled Snaps?

Then use this command (I've checked it out first)

snap list --all | awk '/désactivé|disabled/{print $1, $3}' | while read snapname revision; do sudo snap remove "$snapname" --revision="$revision"; done


It works

[JeffRedd]

[Schwarzer Kater]

Thank you very much for sharing this.
Surely worth an alias for Snap users!
Something like alias snapclean="snap list --all | awk '/désactivé|disabled/{print $1, $3}' | while read snapname revision; do sudo snap remove '$snapname' --revision='$revision'; done" (did not try if it works, not using any Snaps atm…).

On the other hand I do think that it is high time that Canonical starts providing a more simple way (!)…
I just say: flatpak uninstall --unused

[JeffRedd]

You are certainly welcome! Some people prefer Snap and others like Flatpak but I use them both in Discovery. I have not had good luck with either one because they often don’t work. I have found that installing software from the command line often works when it won’t work in Discovery or GNOME Software.


I use Discovery, GNOME Software, QSnapStore and Snap Store for browsing different software and getting different ideas of something that I might find useful and then end up installing it from the command line because it often does not work. They all have slightly different repositories so they are all a little different. Cheers!

[Schwarzer Kater]

If you have the packages plasma-discover-backend-snap and plasma-discover-backend-flatpak installed, Discover should show exactly the same things as all the other "software centers" (the informations provided for a program might slightly differ).
Otherwise this is a bug, because they use the same *Ubuntu, Snap and Flatpak (Flathub) repositories.
And personally I would back away from using GNOME Software in a KDE Plasma desktop environment., but that is just me…

APT in CLI or Synaptic will show additional things (and there is no Snap or Flatpak plugin for Synaptic).

[JeffRedd]

If you have the packages plasma-discover-backend-snap and plasma-discover-backend-flatpak installed, Discover should show exactly the same things as all the other "software centers" (the informations provided for a program might slightly differ).

I use Discovery the most and have the ‘Discover – Snap backend” installed along with the “Discover – Flatpak backend” installed, and I installed them from within Discover.

they use the same *Ubuntu, Snap and Flatpak (Flathub) repositories.

I use 4 different software centers and I can tell you that they are a little different. I have had many times when I was looking for a certain app and couldn’t find it in any repository except for one. That was usually the “Snap Store”. I don’t think there is a bug but I think they filter the packages differantly because there are definitely differences between them.

And personally I would back away from using GNOME Software in a KDE Plasma desktop environment.

I have heard this before. But according to a webpage called “About Kubuntu” it says “Kubuntu users are able to install and use the Gnome desktop easily on their system.” I didn’t do that but I do have some Gnome software on my system and have never experienced any problems. I thought the Kubuntu came with some Gnome software installed or maybe it was me and part of another package? Should I uninstall all my Gnome software? I hope it doesn’t break my operating system.

[Snowhog]

But according to a webpage called “About Kubuntu” it says “Kubuntu users are able to install and use the Gnome desktop easily on their system.”

The only reason that some/many Kubuntu users say to shy away from packages that utilize Gnome is that it 'bloats' the Kubuntu installation. But these days, with huge GB/TB drives, this really isn't an issue. Basically, Kubuntu 'purists' don't want to "contaminate" their system with Gnome.

[JeffRedd]

Basically, Kubuntu 'purists' don't want to "contaminate" their system with Gnome.

Ha,ha,ha. That hilarious! Contaminate? If you say so Chief. Well I've found a few good things they came up with.