ubuntufirefoxsnap

snap: unable to remove old versions of apps


I found that i have 14 firefox versions on my disk taking up 4.2GB. There are more than 2 versions for core, code and chrome too.

I used sudo snap list firefox --all but it only listed two versions for firefox. snap firefox firefoxes on disk

I tried sudo snap set system refresh.retain=2 but that doesn't clean up existing versions.

How should i remove those old firefox versions?

If i use for example sudo snap remove firefox --revision 3799, it would complain revision 3799 of snap "firefox" is not installed.

Also I noticed that snap is not detecting those newer versions (39**) as well.

Is this a bug in snap?


Solution

  • For anyone with similar problem, looks like this is a known bug in snap and will be fixed in 2.62. Check out the thread here.