Hello Everyone,

How can I completely remove snap and flatpak stores and all their settings from the system? I just want to use .dep packages.

Hello,
list installed snaps:

snap list

then remove all of them except core, for example the snap-store:

sudo snap remove snap-store

then remove snapd package:

sudo apt remove --purge snapd

Block snapd in order to not install them back automatically. To do so create a file, here with vim but you can use your favorite text editor:

vim /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap

and put those line in it:

Package: snapd
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1

that tells apt to don't install snapd package.

To be sure if that was working try:

sudo apt install snapd

You should have an error and it is not installed.

Thanks Pushback. I haven't tested it yet, but I'm sure it will work. I'll post again when I test it.

Works and you can do similarly with flatpak.
        Putting the phone PC (marketing/inaccurate term 'smartphone') program snapd on desktop was one of worst mistakes Ubuntu ever made because not only you have less control but makes annoying /home/user/snap you either have to delete all snaps or list that directory/folder in /home/user/.hidden ... that's why I will never use snap, and I don't like flatpak either (though not similarly extremely annoying).
        I suggest this 01autoremove section.

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#/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove
APT
{
  #... (i.e., other stuff)
  Move-Autobit-Sections
  {
        #...
        "flatpak";
        "snapd";
  };
};


I have these but don't know difference.

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#/etc/apt/preferences.d/99-blacklist-flatpak
Package: flatpak
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10


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#/etc/apt/preferences.d/99-blacklist-snapd
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10


Thanks Pushback and Dchmelik. It works fine with both methods. For both flatpak and snap.

You are welcome!