This all started in a different thread for different reasons:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2461000
This ultimately led me to a completely different question...
Maybe I don't understand APT that well, but it always thought it was it's own package manager.
The other day I attempted to add a PPA for a Development branch of Chromium (as noted in the previous thread).
When I went to install it, even using APT, and after putting in the PPA... it launched SNAP to install Chromium!!!
So, I went to remove snap, and all of it's subsidiaries... and when I went to install Chromium again, it downloaded Snap on it's own and then installed the Chromium SNAP!!!
This is noted in this article at the bottom under "Gotcha."
https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/di...-ubuntu-20-04/
So... to the Questions...
- Why would APT force a SNAP install?
- Aren't they different package managers?
- Is this just the direction Ubuntu is going?
- Everything has to be Snaps whether you like them or not?
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