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Ubuntu: Remove disabled snaps

Boris Quiroz on July 11, 2019

In October 2015, Ubuntu 15.10 was shipped with something called snappy, which is the "software deployment and package management system developed b...
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Hi Boris, thanks for this great tip, once you have executed the batch how long should it take before taking effect ?

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Boris Quiroz

Hi mohbra,
It really depends on how many snaps you have. This is the time it took me to remove 13 old snaps a few minutes ago: clean-snap 0.54s user 0.59s system 7% cpu 15.392 total

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It’s weird when I ran the command to view the list it sort of hanged on me. So cancel the request created the batch and run it. It’s still going on. The thing is I have executed the batch from ssh. Any advice on what I can do next

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It’s been over an hour now.