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I have removed snapd from ubuntu 20.04 because it uses high amount of memory, I want to install software center without installing snapd,I tried sudo apt install ubuntu-software, but it also install snapd, is there a way to do it, or snapd is essential dependency for software center ?

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  • Ubuntu Software in 20.04 and newer is ONLY available as a Snap. Either reinstall snapd or choose a different method of browsing software. – user535733 Feb 13 '21 at 18:23
  • You can use synaptic. sudo apt install synaptic – oldfred Feb 13 '21 at 18:41
  • There are a few other software stores also, I find app grid works well. – crip659 Feb 13 '21 at 19:29
  • Not really sure how snapd would be using lots of memory. Checking my system it is #25 on a list of 30 for the most memory using apps. 38.9 MiB (0.1%) command: snapd pid: 1554. sudo inxi -t m30 will list the 30 highest memory usage apps. – Terrance Feb 13 '21 at 23:00
  • @Terrance all tools of snapd i.e. core 18 snap store and others which comes in ubuntu 20.04 were using around 400 MB, so I removed snapd, maybe your are right, the packages run on snapd might consuming the ram, not the snapd itself – Parmanand Patidar Feb 15 '21 at 10:09
  • @ParmanandPatidar Snaps do not consume RAM normally. Out of all the snaps I am running on my system only the snapd and the canonical-livepatch actually use any RAM. All the rest use filesystem space as they are mounted as loop files and do not consume RAM until they are called for. So, snapd is the controller and not mounted to the filesystem like all the other snap apps are. Running the following command will show if any of the mounted snaps are using any RAM: sudo inxi -t m1000 | grep "$(df -h | grep snap | awk -F[/] '{print $5}')" and when I checked mine, only livepatch showed. – Terrance Feb 15 '21 at 12:04

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