Next, list your Snap packages to see what is currently installed. Sudo systemctl disable Step 2: Remove Snap packages Start by disabling the Snap services within Sysctl: sudo systemctl disable rvice This guide was developed and tested within the following environment: Although the procedure described here won’t break your system, you may face limitations in the future (e.g: if a software is only available as Snap, or if you wanted to enable LivePatch). For now, my choice is to remove it.ĭisclaimer: Do this at your own risk. I believe things should improve and maybe we’ll see a more stable platform in the next LTS release. That doesn’t mean I hate it, I just don’t want to deal with Snap now. In this guide, I share how I disabled Snap and purged it from my Ubuntu 22.04 system.

After that I was able to install Firefox from the Mozilla team PPA, and things are running smoothly since then (it’s been a couple of weeks).

That’s why I decided to remove Snap (all apps and snapd) altogether from my system. I personally believe pushing Snap to users by default is a bad decision from Ubuntu, since there are known stability issues (like it getting broken right after a fresh install, which happened to me) that simply don’t happen with traditional. This happened to me on all 5 installations I did of Ubuntu 22.04 in the past few weeks. You can’t google your issue and your error messages directly, because the browser is broken. In this specific case of Firefox as snap, imagine that you have just installed the system and you can’t open your browser because Snap is broken. This wouldn’t be such a problem if Snaps were as stable as. On Ubuntu 22.04, a fresh installation brings Firefox installed as Snap, and apt installs snaps when they’re available. Snap is Linux package manager (such as apt) with its own package ecosystem and app store, and it’s being pushed as new default on the latest Ubuntu release (22.04 Jammy Jellyfish).

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