how to remove snappy or snapd

[wheelie207]

How do I remove the snappy core or snapd from my ubuntu 16.04.
I have no interest in the snappy crap and want to remove it from my box, but have not found any solution to it.
I have my reasons and feel that it will be a problem with security issues.
I do hope that I can remove it or is ubuntu going to start acting like microsoft and force everything on us.

So I hope there is a way to remove it from my box. Thanks

[grahammechanical]

I was going to help you but I have my reasons for not giving assistance.

[wheelie207]

Well, then you should of not said anything.
If I can't remove it, then maybe it's time to change to another distro.

[mc4man]

By default snapd does nothing much in 16.04 & no one is forcing anybody to use snap packages. To remove -

sudo apt purge snapd ubuntu-core-launcher squashfs-tools

[wheelie207]

Thank you very much.

[ajgreeny]

Great. Please mark as SOLVED from the Thread Tools menu up-top. It is a great help to users searching the forum.

[Jay_E]

Another Thank you.
I have an old HP-mini running Ubuntu 16.10
At startup, it had 6 instances of snapd running and the machine was thrashing, and swapping to swap.
Remving snapd cleared this up.
Thanks, Jay

[bandjc]

By default snapd does nothing much in 16.04 & no one is forcing anybody to use snap packages. To remove -

sudo apt purge snapd ubuntu-core-launcher squashfs-tools

Thank you very much. Tried to use snaps this evening and they almost bought my machine to a standstill (and none of them worked!)
I'll leave snaps alone in future, after following your instruction above..
Cheers,
Bwucie

[tntteam]

By default snapd does nothing much in 16.04 & no one is forcing anybody to use snap packages. To remove -

sudo apt purge snapd ubuntu-core-launcher squashfs-tools

Thanks, I wish there was a list of these uneeded packages to remove... Btw, I didn't remove squashfs-tools because it asks to remove lxd by dependancy.

I understand you put all these things in client distrib, but why in server distrib ? It deserve you a lot to install non wanted software on supposed secure server distrib. My 2 cents.

[renaissance7449]

Thanks