Trying to Remove Chromium Getting and Getting Read Only File System Error
I Am Running Ubuntu Lts 20.04.2 I Installed Chromium and Chrome, I Now Want to Delete Chrome. I See Chromium in ~/Snap/Chromium So I Delete It Using Rm -Rf...
I am running Ubuntu LTS 20.04.2
I installed chromium and chrome, I now want to delete chrome. I see chromium in ~/snap/chromium so I delete it using rm -rf ~/snap/chromium, but I still see chromium in the applications menu. When I click on it chromium opens and then I see chromium BACK in ~/snap.
I tried deleting it and restarting with no luck. After I restart chromium is still in the applications menu and when I click on it a folder.
If I try sudo rm -rf /snap/chromium i get a bunch of errors similar to the following,
rm: cannot remove '/snap/chromium/1536/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-3.0/gtk-keys.css': Read-only file system
Now chromium is broken but i'd really like to remove those files and understand whats wrong.
1 Answer
That's the wrong way to uninstall a snap, as you have discovered.
Try sudo snap remove chromium instead.
Pro Tip: You shouldn't be using rm with ANY files that were installed by a package manager. Doing so is an easy way to break your system quite badly. Always use the appropriate package manager to uninstall software.
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