Safe way to remove Snapd

[JesusLinux]

Hello,
Would like to know a safe way to remove everything related to snap packs and snapd.

I do not have any snaps installed on my system.
Pamac GUI has always had snap support disabled.

I red the forum and the Arch Wiki.
I get this:

sudo pacman -Rns snapd
[sudo] password for jesuslinux: 
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing snapd breaks dependency 'snapd' required by libpamac-snap-plugin
:: removing snapd breaks dependency 'snapd' required by manjaro-tools-iso-git

Did not use:

pamac remove --no-save snapd

Because I’m afraid of breaking pamac GUI of something.
I red this thread:

How to completely remove snapd and flatpak from Manjaro?

No, I was referring to the directory in / where snapd installs all the snaps. In Ubuntu, apt remove snapd only removes snapd, but all the files that were downloaded for running the snaps are still there. (Removing snap from home is easy). In Ubuntu, one has to do sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd to remove snapd along with all the snaps and config files installed by snapd. I was looking for a similar command in Manjaro, for both snapd and flatpak.

Snap - ArchWiki

Just want to make sure how to do it and remove everything snap related.

Thanks.

[Molski]

$ sudo pacman -Rns snapd
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing snapd breaks dependency 'snapd' required by libpamac-snap-plugin
$ sudo pacman -Rns snapd libpamac-snap-plugin                                                                                     
checking dependencies...
:: pacui optionally requires snapd: Needed for for Snap update support
:: pamac-gtk optionally requires libpamac-snap-plugin: for Snap support

Packages (2) libpamac-snap-plugin-11.7.3-7  snapd-2.72-1

Total Removed Size:  69.10 MiB

:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]

I’d feel fine doing that. You just have to add manjaro-tools-iso-git.

[JesusLinux]

Can you clarify that please?

[Molski]

In other words.

sudo pacman -Rns snapd libpamac-snap-plugin manjaro-tools-iso-git

I just showed you what I got by I adding the dependency blocking it’s removal on my system.

(I don’t have manjaro-tools-iso-git installed.)

And I'm tired.

[soundofthunder]

Well, I’ve never uninstalled the snap feature – I’ve never activated it, either – but, let’s see if this logic holds true:

Snapd is probably being used by pamac:

1. Make sure the “Snap” feature is disabled in Pamac-Manager (Add/Remove Software GUI).
2. Reboot
3. Uninstall Snapd sudo pacman -Rns snapd
4. If it works – Profit!
   If it doesn’t work – It’s not the end of the world as we know it!

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I should mention that simply disabling the Snap feature in Pamac should be all you need to do. There is no real need to uninstall anything.

Regards.