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Removing rust-coreutils on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

i've been using ubuntu 26.04 LTS for a while now and i'm satisfied; it's done everything i asked and is almost perfect for me. only two things are bugging me. they don't affect performance or disrupt daily work, but it's just annoying that it's like this.

first, the snap issue, which i've almost completely managed to remove from ubuntu. however, the libsnapd-glib-2-1 package remains because ubuntu made it a dependency for pipewire so that you can't remove it.

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apt why libsnapd-glib-2-1 | grep Depends

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

2. kde-plasma-desktop:amd64 Depends plasma-desktop (>= 4:6.5.4)
6. pipewire-pulse:amd64=1.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 Depends pipewire (= 1.6.2-1ubuntu1.1)
7. pipewire:amd64=1.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 Depends libpipewire-0.3-modules (= 1.6.2-1ubuntu1.1)
8. libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 Depends libsnapd-glib-2-1 (>= 1.59)

second, rust-coreutils. i can almost successfully remove this package, but removing it also removes build-essential. if i try to reinstall it later, it asks me to remove the coreutils-from-gnu package. i can do this to bypass it, but i don't know if the system will break when i update it in the future! do you think this way is safe?

sudo apt install coreutils-from-gnu coreutils-from-uutils- --allow-remove-essential

sudo apt install equivs

vim coreutils-from-uutils-stub.ctl

equivs-build coreutils-from-uutils-stub.ctl

sudo dpkg -i coreutils-from-uutils-stub_1.0_all.deb

sudo apt install build-essential

sudo apt autoremove —purge

Posted Aug 2, 2026, 7:35 AM UTC

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