As I don't want unconfined snaps in my system, I would like to know what is the best way to have a Mate desktop on Ubuntu without installing the unconfined snaps that are included with Ubuntu MATE installation. i.e.: install Ubuntu Server and then install mate desktop package.
To clarify, I only want the standard Mate desktop without snaps.
Thank you!
You install Ubuntu MATE task on the 20.04 LTS minimal system obtained from netboot mini.iso by
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop^
and it will not have Snaps preinstalled. Please note that you need to fix Network Manager by following this answer.
If you have installed Snaps by yourself - remove both by:
sudo snap remove software-boutique --purge
sudo snap remove ubuntu-mate-welcome --purge
Or more debian-like way by installing binaries which were compiled from the same mate-desktop-environment source package:
sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment mate-desktop-environment-extra
