I installed EOS on my main computer. I use the terminal for installing and building but I like browsing through Pamac to see what’s available.
I installed it using yay -S pamac (didnt use pamac-aur, I used pamac-all). I noticed during installation it kept referencing to a “snapd”. Does that mean Pamac was installed as a Snap?
I don’t like using Snaps on my system.
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The package pamac-all includes support for installing flatpaks and snaps.
Because of this, it has snapd as a dependency.
If you don’t want that, install one of the other pamac’s from AUR.
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Can I remove the snap option from the software availability or should I just install pamac-aur-git?
Just install one of the other ones.
DO I need to remove this one or will pamac-aur-git write over it?
When you install the new one it will ask to remove the old one because they both provide pamac
After that you can remove snapd
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I assume I have to use yay to remove snapd. Is the remove command the same as pacman?
ok, I removed it using yay -Rns snapd, it looks like it worked
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Yes, the command to remove a package is the same.
As a side note, once a package is installed, pacman can remove it. However, pacman cannot install or update packages from the AUR.
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hello ,why don’t you delete snapd directly with pamac-aur or pamac-aur-git ???
I wasn’t sure If that would work so I used yay after installing pamac-aur-git which asked me to erase the old one but I had 3 files that remained including snapd. I prefer using the terminal.
Why on earth do you need Pamac then? 
To browse software as I said in the first post.
So even though I installed pamac-aur-git & removed pamac-aur i still have snapd, that correct?
No. It only comes with pamac-all
Only you know the answer to that question. To find out:
pacman -Q snapd
error: package ‘snapd’ was not found
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