Prevent snap from installing new pkgs? [Solved]

[rastus]

I had to install snap because it's the only way to use NordPass. I would like to know if the following commands will prevent other snap files from being installed, but without preventing NordPass from doing its thing. This code comes from https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable

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$ sudo cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
EOF

I recently learned that having snap is not a good thing. But I need NordPass. Thanks. (Because NordPass requires systemd, that's where this is happening.)

[herbie643]

I know this is not the solution you were looking for but I did
flatpak search NordPass
which returned this
NordPass Password Manager An easy to use password manager brought to you by cybersecurity experts. com.nordpass.NordPass 5.9.25 stable flathub
So maybe flatpak might work?

[rastus]

Hmmm. That's weird. It was my understanding that it is only available with snap. I will look into it. Thanks!

[Mauser]

NordPass is available in Flatpaks in the MX Package Installer.

[dolphin_oracle]

I had to install snap because it's the only way to use NordPass. I would like to know if the following commands will prevent other snap files from being installed, but without preventing NordPass from doing its thing. This code comes from https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable

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$ sudo cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
EOF

I recently learned that having snap is not a good thing. But I need NordPass. Thanks. (Because NordPass requires systemd, that's where this is happening.)

that will prevent snapd from being installed. which is necessary for snaps to function, but will not prevent snapd from updating snaps.

on mx there is no automatic snap installation, so if you don't want more snaps, don't install them. just having snapd won't cause you problems with random snap installation.

you might need to be careful if you use something like gnome-software, but thats about it.

[rastus]

Thanks, everyone!

[Stevo]

I believe that snapd also won't start unless you choose to boot MX with systemd, which is not our default, but you can make yours (via MX Boot Options).

Unless dolphin_oracle has written an sysv init for snapd...?

[MXRobo]

To add, and this does not help much, but the Nordpass flatpak would not do something in MX-21x Xfce, I contacted Nordpass, they said no go, so I decided to use or install Bitwarden instead.