| cactus123 | hello. i hope i'm the right place | 22:12 |
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| cactus123 | i'm trying to remove snap but i'm not sure how will it affect my system | 22:13 |
| gnrp | cactus123: It depends on whether you have packages installed that require snap | 22:14 |
| gnrp | cactus123: If you just try uninstalling it, you will see a list of packages that depend on it and would also get removed. You can still decide to cancel the action, then | 22:14 |
| Unit193 | Can you run `snap list` or `snap info` to see what's installed? | 22:14 |
| cactus123 | i have gnome-3-28-1804 and gtk-common-themes listed there. does removing them have negative impact | 22:14 |
| Unit193 | If you are using Xubuntu, then not really no. | 22:15 |
| Unit193 | If you're using GNOME or something like that, I have no idea. That first one seems a bit odd to me. | 22:15 |
| cactus123 | so if i remove them, i can still access my DE as usual? | 22:15 |
| gnrp | cactus123: It is in Xubuntu only required for few certain packages, like the chromium browser | 22:16 |
| cactus123 | ahhh | 22:16 |
| cactus123 | i did install chromium | 22:16 |
| cactus123 | with snap | 22:16 |
| Unit193 | Xubuntu doesn't actually ship with any snaps in and of itself, on upgrades software-center tries to convert itself to a snap though. | 22:17 |
| cactus123 | ahhhh no wonder. so it got into my system because i install chromium through ubuntu apt? | 22:18 |
| gnrp | cactus123: Pretty likely | 22:18 |
| * gnrp got so fed up with snap not being able to use a different directory than ~/snap that I uninstalled it as well | 22:18 | |
| cactus123 | ok i thing i start to understand. i'm a very new user. not familiar with command line and all | 22:19 |
| cactus123 | using ubuntu as my laptop is aging | 22:19 |
| cactus123 | ok. i'm gonna try. worst thing is i just had to reinstall with liveusb | 22:20 |
| cactus123 | thank for the help both of you :) | 22:20 |
| gnrp | cactus123: removign snap is safe to the xubuntu system itself | 22:20 |
| cactus123 | i will follow the instruction online | 22:20 |
| cactus123 | oh before i get to that, i was wondering about snap auto-update. specifically how large is the update file is. as i understand, the regular installation file for any snap package is very large, is the auto-update large too? my concern since i'm on limited data connection | 22:24 |
| gnrp | can't help you with that, sorry. But indeed, the principle of snap is that the packages are bigger | 22:26 |
| cactus123 | ok thanks :) | 22:29 |
| xu-help29w | Hi - any suggestions for an easy way to install a new xubuntu version alongside my existing install, without having to make a boot disk? | 22:29 |
| Unit193 | Depends on how much ram you have. | 22:31 |
| xu-help29w | i started googling ram disks, but it looked more complicated than digging a usb key out of a drawer somewhere | 22:42 |
| xu-help29w | thank you though :) | 22:42 |
| Unit193 | Actually I was just going with: install grub-rescueboot, pop the iso into /boot/grml/ and run update-grub, reboot and select the new ISO at the grub menu, but ensure 'toram' is passed as an option. | 22:43 |
| cactus123 | successfully removing snap without ill effect after reboot :) | 22:48 |
| gnrp | cactus123: Congrats! ;) | 22:48 |
| cactus123 | yeah i see it now | 22:58 |
| cactus123 | when i want to install chromium through apt, it also want to install snapd | 22:58 |
| Unit193 | Because chromium no longer exists in the repo, yep. | 22:59 |
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