[22:12] hello. i hope i'm the right place [22:13] i'm trying to remove snap but i'm not sure how will it affect my system [22:14] cactus123: It depends on whether you have packages installed that require snap [22:14] 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] Can you run `snap list` or `snap info` to see what's installed? [22:14] i have gnome-3-28-1804 and gtk-common-themes listed there. does removing them have negative impact [22:15] If you are using Xubuntu, then not really no. [22:15] If you're using GNOME or something like that, I have no idea. That first one seems a bit odd to me. [22:15] so if i remove them, i can still access my DE as usual? [22:16] cactus123: It is in Xubuntu only required for few certain packages, like the chromium browser [22:16] ahhh [22:16] i did install chromium [22:16] with snap [22:17] Xubuntu doesn't actually ship with any snaps in and of itself, on upgrades software-center tries to convert itself to a snap though. [22:18] ahhhh no wonder. so it got into my system because i install chromium through ubuntu apt? [22:18] 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 [22:19] ok i thing i start to understand. i'm a very new user. not familiar with command line and all [22:19] using ubuntu as my laptop is aging [22:20] ok. i'm gonna try. worst thing is i just had to reinstall with liveusb [22:20] thank for the help both of you :) [22:20] cactus123: removign snap is safe to the xubuntu system itself [22:20] i will follow the instruction online [22:24] 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 [22:26] can't help you with that, sorry. But indeed, the principle of snap is that the packages are bigger [22:29] ok thanks :) [22:29] Hi - any suggestions for an easy way to install a new xubuntu version alongside my existing install, without having to make a boot disk? [22:31] Depends on how much ram you have. [22:42] i started googling ram disks, but it looked more complicated than digging a usb key out of a drawer somewhere [22:42] thank you though :) [22:43] 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. [22:48] successfully removing snap without ill effect after reboot :) [22:48] cactus123: Congrats! ;) [22:58] yeah i see it now [22:58] when i want to install chromium through apt, it also want to install snapd [22:59] Because chromium no longer exists in the repo, yep.