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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by Izkata on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:17PM (#24148225)
> Snap is auto-updating and you can't stop it

Kill the daemon and make it non-executable. Only restore it when you want to manually do an install.

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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:31PM (#24148516)
What is this, Windows 10?
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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by hansvm on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:39PM (#24150474)
I wish Windows 10 were that nice. First you need a nice race condition to break the updater's updater's unauthorized change prevention service....
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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by a1369209993 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:07PM (#24150800)
Boot into your linux install, dd /dev/random onto the executables, done.
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Re:Why is there only one Snap Store? by xet7 on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:46AM (#24158583)
Huh? I think it's easier to just add to /etc/hosts this line:

127.0.0.1 api.snapcraft.io

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