I’ve installed a bunch of programs with sudo snap install <app> <options> This is the SHELL output displayed after running snap list.
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base
code eaa41d57 166 latest/stable vscode✓ disabled,classic
core 16-2.61.4-20240607 17200 latest/stable canonical✓ core
core18 20240612 2829 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core20 20240416 2318 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core22 20240419 1439 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core24 20240528 423 latest/stable canonical✓ base
discord 0.0.63 203 latest/stable snapcrafters✪ -
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 198 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-3-34-1804 0+git.3556cb3 93 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-42-2204 0+git.510a601 176 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-46-2404 0+git.1f00542 42 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535 latest/stable canonical✓ -
hello-world 6.4 29 latest/stable canonical✓ -
mesa-2404 24.0.5 44 latest/stable canonical✓ -
postman 10.24.26 254 v10/stable postman-inc✓ -
slack 4.39.95 158 latest/stable slack✓ -
snap-store 41.3-77-g7dc86c8 1113 latest/stable canonical✓ -
sublime-text 4180 177 latest/stable snapcrafters✪ classic
wine-platform-6-stable 6.0.4 19 latest/stable mmtrt -
wine-platform-runtime v1.0 385 latest/stable mmtrt
This is the output of running the following command sudo snap remove --purge code
remove data for snap "code" (166) (failed to remove snap "code" base directory: remove /home/<user>/snap/code: directory not empty)
This is the output of running tree -L 1 snap/code/ which is consistent with the 166 error message about code directory being not empty.
snap/code/
└── 157
1 directory, 0 files
FYI if I mv snap/code/ snap/code.bak and run sudo snap remove --purge I can remove the application without any problem.
Is this the default behaviour of snap? Perhaps snap remove [--purge] is broken? I cannot think of any reason why removing the code directory should be any problem for the script unless I’m missing something.