I have lots of old snaps in /var/libd/snaps
#> ls /var/lib/snapd/snaps | sort
bare_5.snap
chromium_2556.snap
chromium_2642.snap
core_16091.snap
core18_2790.snap
core20_2015.snap
core22_864.snap
cups_980.snap
firefox_2579.snap
firefox_2645.snap
firefox_2667.snap
firefox_2710.snap
firefox_2760.snap
firefox_2800.snap
firefox_3026.snap
firefox_3131.snap
firefox_3166.snap
firefox_3206.snap
geth_477.snap
gnome-3-28-1804_198.snap
gnome-3-34-1804_93.snap
gnome-3-38-2004_143.snap
gnome-42-2204_141.snap
gtk-common-themes_1535.snap
hunspell-dictionaries-1-7-2004_2.snap
musescore_228.snap
partial
pycharm-community_347.snap
snapd_20092.snap
snap-store_959.snap
spotify_68.snap
But
#> snap list --all
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base
chromium 117.0.5938.92 2642 latest/stable canonical✓ -
core 16-2.60.3 16091 latest/stable canonical✓ core
core18 20230703 2790 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core20 20230801 2015 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core22 20230801 864 latest/stable canonical✓ base
cups 2.4.6-4 980 latest/stable openprinting✓ -
firefox 118.0.1-1 3206 latest/stable mozilla✓ -
geth v1.9.5 477 latest/stable elopio -
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-3-38-2004 0+git.efb213a 143 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-42-2204 0+git.ff35a85 141 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
hunspell-dictionaries-1-7-2004 1.7-20.04+pkg-6fd6 2 latest/stable brlin -
musescore 3.6.2 228 latest/stable musescore✓ -
pycharm-community 2023.2.2 347 latest/stable jetbrains✓ classic
snap-store 41.3-71-g709398e 959 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
snapd 2.60.3 20092 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd
spotify 1.2.13.661.ga588f749 68 latest/stable spotify✓ -
does not show all of these.
I have elsewhere seen a script to clean old snaps
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 snap list --all | awk '/disabled/{print $1, $3}' |
while read snapname revision; do
sudo snap remove "$snapname" --revision="$revision"
done
this works on some old snaps but leaves some in place.
Are the entries in /var/libd/snaps somehow broken, that they are not seen by snap --list? What should I do, just delete them?
