Remove Snap Store – Ubuntu 26.04

…and install some essentials:

Copy and paste each block as a single command. If you’re doing this, you don’t need anyone to hold your hand.

Only down side is losing Live Patch (meh), which Canonical only ship as a snap.

sudo snap remove --purge desktop-security-center
sudo snap remove --purge firefox
sudo snap remove --purge firmware-updater
sudo snap remove --purge gnome-46-2404
sudo snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
sudo snap remove --purge mesa-2404
sudo snap remove --purge prompting-client
sudo snap remove --purge snap-store
sudo snap remove --purge snapd-desktop-integration
sudo snap remove --purge bare
sudo snap remove --purge core24
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl stop snapd snapd.socket snapd.seeded.service
sudo apt purge snapd
sudo apt autoremove --purge
echo '
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-snap.pref
rm -rf ~/snap
sudo rm -rf /snap
sudo rm -rf /var/snap
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/snapd
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo reboot

Install the Gnome Software Package Manager

sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-software

Re-install Firefox

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
echo '
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
Pin-Priority: 1000
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla
sudo apt update
sudo apt install firefox

Install Thunderbird

echo '
Package: thunderbird*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu*
Pin-Priority: -1
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/thunderbird-no-snap
sudo apt update
sudo apt install thunderbird

Install Visual Studio Code

sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl gpg apt-transport-https
curl -fsSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/microsoft.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install code

Install VLC

sudo apt install vlc

Install Gimp

sudo apt install gimp

Install LibreOffice

sudo apt install libreoffice