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 snap
snap-core-4486.mount                   disabled
snap-core-4830.mount                   disabled
snapd.autoimport.service               enabled
snapd.core-fixup.service               enabled
snapd.seeded.service                   disabled
snapd.service                          disabled
snapd.snap-repair.service              static
snapd.system-shutdown.service          enabled
snapd.socket                           disabled
snapd.snap-repair.timer                enabled

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

sudo systemctl disable snapd.service
sudo systemctl disable snapd.seeded.service
sudo systemctl disable snapd.socket
sudo systemctl disable snap-core-4486.mount
sudo 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