I was just checking out 18.04, and I saw after the initial installation that there where some snaps installed. (not with update, just by using the installation-media)
Now I’m not a big fan of snap, so I did an “apt purge snapd”, and this removed snap and the snaps that came with it.
My 2 questions are, is there a reason to use the snap way of distributing packages for these specific packages?
and the second question is: I saw that the software boutique and pulseaudio where a few of the snaps installed. Now I found pulseaudio in the repositories. So I got that back. The boutique was not in the repositories. But does it mean that only those snaps will receive updates, and not the versions in the repositories?
Thanks
oh btw, compliments on mate 18.04! It looks great and also it’s easy to customize. Great release.
yes the boutique is now only available as a snap now not in the repositories from my understanding, at least for 18.04
Yeah I get that. I was just wondering what the plan is. For the other snaps that came with the initial installation, like pulseaudio, will these no longer receive update support with the regular repositories?
If the strategy is that more and more applications, and even core stuff, will only be distributed with snaps, then using snaps is kinda unavoidable to keep running ubuntu based distro’s.
I have removed snapd, and all the snaps. But will it become a must to use snap in the very near future to run ubuntu based distro’s like Ubuntu Mate?
I don't think we know the answer to that yet — Canonical themselves may not know the answer yet either! It probably depends on how development of snaps goes...
perhaps Ubuntu flavors like UM, Xubuntu,… depending on the choices of
canonical and the community, but what is in the repositories should stay up
to date, the only case it would not would be if they were to remove it from
the repositories, but other Ubuntu knockoffs like Linux Mint and PoP OS
will have snaps installed by default or even snapd installed, unless they
decide to, but I think Linus Mint is going with Flatpaks instead, but not
positive on that
Oh man, I did the same thing. Had previously done apt purge snapd on 16.04. Who would have thought they’d have used it for vital system components!
OK, I can do without the welcome app, and I’d apparently installed spotify with it but … pulseaudio? Come on … that’s a house of cards. Would be interested in why the decision to use snapd for pulseaudio, an already flaky piece of software was taken.
So, I tried reinstalling snap and pulseaudio but can’t get any sort of sound out of Mate now, and the sound app just crashes when I start it. Apparently there is no connection to pulseaudio.
How to solve this?