In Ubuntu 20.04, if you use apt to install Chromium browser, it installs a snap version of this browser. But that’s not the case in Ubuntu 20.04 (Mint 20 is based on this Ubuntu version). When you use apt to install an application, you expect an apt package to be installed. Linux Mint team took a hard decision of blocking Snap by default after Ubuntu went on to blurring the line between apt packaging system and snap packaging system. If an apt package is 100MB in size, the snap package of the same application may have 1 GB of size.Īpart from that, snap applications take longer to load and they also take more disk spaces.īut that’s not the reason why snaps are banished from Linux Mint 20. Snap packages are automatically updated to newer versions.īut snap packages have some negative points as well. These snap packages are ‘containerized’ meaning that these packages contain all the dependency within the package and they don’t rely on and interact with the system’s installed packages and libraries (mostly). This is one of the biggest advantage of snap packages. Snap is a universal package format that can be installed in any distribution that supports snapd. Why Linux Mint explicitly disabled Snap support? Safer this way, if you are afraid of the rm command in terminal. You can use the Nemo file browser and delete the file you copied in the home directory. Once the snap support is enabled in Linux Mint, you can use the snap commands to install applications in Snap format.
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