How To Remove A Snap Package From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS How To Remove A Snap Package From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

How To Remove A Snap Package From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

How To Remove A Snap Package From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

You’re in the right place if you’re looking for instructions on how to uninstall a Snap Package from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. We’ll demonstrate how to quickly uninstall Snap packages from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in this article.

How To Remove A Snap Package From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Run the following command to list down the snap packages installed on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:

sudo snap list

Now, run the following command to remove any snap package from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:

sudo snap remove package-name-that-need-to-be-remove

For example, to remove Firefox, Run the following  command:

sudo snap remove firefox

Remove PPA Repository from the Terminal in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

There are several methods by which you can remove the PPA repository from the Ubuntu terminal and they are:

Remove PPA Repository from the Source List

Go to the source list file with this command first:

cd /etc/apt/source.list.d

Now, run the following command to view the list of PPA repositories:

ls

Now, you can easily remove any repos from the source file with the following command:

sudo rm <repository-name>

Remove PPA Repository from add-apt Repository Command

Run the following command to remove the PPA repository from the add-apt-repository command in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:<repository_name>

Remove PPA Repository PPA-Purge Tool

First, run the following command to install the PPA-Purge command tool in Ubuntu.

sudo apt install ppa-purge -y

Now, run the following command to remove the PPA repository using the PPA-purge tool. This command not only removes snapd but also deletes its configuration files.

sudo ppa-purge ppa:<repository_name>

On Debian, Linux Mint, elementary OS etc, Run the following  apt command to remove snapd:

sudo apt remove --purge snapd

On Fedora-based distributions, Run the following DNF command:

sudo dnf remove snapd

How to Remove Snap entirely from Ubuntu

Run the following command to know what packages are installed as snaps:

snap list

Before removing all the packages, run the following command to stop the snapd services running.

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

Now, you can remove snap completely from Ubuntu.

sudo snap remove --purge firefox

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