How to remove old version of installed snaps
Here's a short script which will remove all old versions of snaps. This will only keep the current active version, which should recover you some disk space:
#!/bin/bash
# Removes old revisions of snaps
# CLOSE ALL SNAPS BEFORE RUNNING THIS
set -eu
LANG=C snap list --all | awk '/disabled/{print $1, $3}' |
while read snapname revision; do
snap remove "$snapname" --revision="$revision"
done
Starting from snap v2.34 and later, you can set the maximum number of snap revisions stored for each package by setting the refresh.retain
option—it can only be a number between 2 and 20 and has a default value of 3.
sudo snap set system refresh.retain=2
A version of the script from another answer, as a one-liner, without the awk
dependency:
# snap list --all | while read snapname ver rev trk pub notes; do if [[ $notes = *disabled* ]]; then snap remove "$snapname" --revision="$rev"; fi; done
This likely requires bash
or a compatible shell with the [[
construct.