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I did a clean reinstall of Ubuntu this morning, came from 18.04 and am now using 20.04. So once Ubuntu successfully installs I naturally go ahead and begin installing programs. The Ubuntu Software interface and icons wouldn't load properly and would give me strange 'Unable to install “blender”: snap “blender” has “install-snap” change in progress', so I just used the terminal.

After installing a few programs via sudo apt install I realize that I have two copies of some (blender, krita, obs-studio) and only one expected copy of others (inkscape, scribus). So I use sudo apt remove blender to try and uninstall them but only one copy is removed. After searching around in my files and see that I have a snap folder even though I never installed via snap, so I sudo snap remove blender and it removes the second copy. How come do I have a snap folder if I install via apt ? Why do I get two copies of programs when I do a regular apt install ?

Has anyone else had this issue ?

darkbean
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  • You can have more than two copies installed; you can have a deb package installed, plus multiple versions of snap packages installed from varying channels. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Software will install snaps and deb packages. – guiverc Apr 28 '20 at 12:31
  • Ubuntu Software is now an interface for snap-store in 20.04. It installs snap versions by default if it is available in snap. If you don't want snap and don't like the terminal, then install synaptic from terminal using sudo apt install synaptic. – user68186 Apr 28 '20 at 12:35
  • Ok I can understand that for some reason 20.04 installs both deb and snap but now how can I disable that ? I don't have a need for multiple versions of the same program. And its cluttering up my application launcher screen with all those duplicates... – darkbean Apr 28 '20 at 12:44

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