How to remove all the firefox (and other) cruft in /snap etc.?

[Oliver Grawert]

Hi,
Am Donnerstag, dem 21.12.2023 um 20:11 +0000 schrieb Chris Green:
> Having removed snapd from my [x]ubuntu system I had hoped it would be
> really gone, but apparently not, there's loads of stuff in /snap and
> in the udev rules (/etc/udev.d/snap.firefox.rules) that haven't gone.
> 
> Surely if I purge firefox it should take all this junk with it.
> 
> How can I safely clear it out?
> 

The easiest would be to re-install the snapd deb (not the snapd snap
indeed) and this time use the --purge option with apt ... the snapd deb
has actually everything needed to cleanly remove all traces of snap
packages but you *need* to use "apt remove --purge ..." or "apt purge
..." to trigger this behavior, else the deb install will do what is a
hard reqwuirement by the debian policy for debs and leave all data dirs
behind ...

ciao
	oli
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