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OS: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

Noticed chromium web page graphics were not displaying correctly so I decided to reinstall. When I tried to use the Ubuntu Software center, uninstall ended with:

unable to remove chromium:
cannot perform the following tasks:

(no further info!)

Used apt to uninstall and did not get any errors. Chromium still shows up as installed in the ubuntu software center.

Subsequently used apt to install chromium-browser and didn't get any errors. However, chromium won't start, and the software center still can't remove it (same message as before).

Richard
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Figured it out. I tried removing the snap version of chromium from the command line and got more info on the problem...

$ sudo snap remove chromium

error: cannot perform the following tasks:


    

  • Remove data for snap "chromium" (2905) (failed to remove snap "chromium" base directory: remove /home/<home dir>/snap/chromium: directory not empty)
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$ ls /home/<home dir>/snap/chromium


2295  2319

After moving '2295' and '2319' to a temporary backup location, the snap tool for uninstalling chromium worked fine. I was then able to reinstall.

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Richard
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