Disable snap core service on Ubuntu 18.04

on June 27, 2018

1. To disable snapd service on Ubuntu 18.04 server, run below command to view all currently runnig snap service.

administrator@nagios:/etc/systemd/system$ systemctl list-unit-files | grep snapsnap-core-4486.mount                   disabledsnap-core-4830.mount                   disabledsnapd.autoimport.service               enabledsnapd.core-fixup.service               enabledsnapd.seeded.service                   disabledsnapd.service                          disabledsnapd.snap-repair.service              staticsnapd.system-shutdown.service          enabledsnapd.socket                           disabledsnapd.snap-repair.timer                enabled

2. Run below commands to disable all the enabled snap services 1 by 1.

sudo systemctl disable snapd.servicesudo systemctl disable snapd.seeded.servicesudo systemctl disable snapd.socketsudo systemctl disable snap-core-4486.mountsudo systemctl disable snap-core-4830.mount

Comments

Unknown said…

Thank you for your suggested method.

Based on your idea, I modify it to make it more automatic

#! /bin/bash
snap_services=$(systemctl list-unit-files | grep snap|grep enabled|cut -d ' ' -f 1)
for snap_service in $snap_services; do
cmd="sudo systemctl disable $snap_service"
echo $cmd
$cmd
done

October 16, 2019 at 8:59 AM