alt Hacker NewsIt is possible to just not use snap on ubuntu. The few ubuntu servers we have, even the couple with a minimal XFCE interface for some gui pieces, don't have snap installed. I realise local exploits happen all the time, but why add a whole new huge surface area if I don't have to.
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It can be done, but it is quite irritating with the way that canonical have made snap a dependency in the minimal meta package. (And minimal on Ubuntu is really really super minimal, doesn't even have ping. Well apart from snap anyway).
They really went out of their way to make it awkward and annoying to take snap out.
use debootstrap to install instead, chroot is your friend. It comes with nothing and I mean that literally while still having the superior ubuntu kernel.
But why bother running Ubuntu at all just to jump through hoops to avoid snaps? Snaps are obviously Ubuntus the thing, so feels counterproductive to run Ubuntu and fight against it.