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Is libsnappy.so and its variants needed?

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My Ubuntu 16.04 has libsnappy.so.* files in /usr/lib/i386... folders.

Do I need them?

Also, there is a /usr/lib/snapd.glib folder even after I removed snap.

Can I just purge all remnants of snap, snapd and snappy related files with brute force?

Is there a way to remove them intelligently without leaving residues?

I already did apt autoremove and apt autoclean yet these are still here.

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answered 2 Years ago curatekill · Accepted Answer

These libraries (libsnappy.so.*) are contained in the following packages:

$ dpkg -S libsnappy.so

libsnappy1v5:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsnappy.so.1.3.0

libsnappy1v5:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsnappy.so.1



$ apt-file search libsnappy.so

libsnappy-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsnappy.so

libsnappy1v5: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsnappy.so.1

libsnappy1v5: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsnappy.so.1.3.0

According to dependencies they are needed on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system because of the following reverse dependencies:

$ apt-cache rdepends libsnappy1v5

libsnappy1v5

Reverse Depends:

  libsnappy-dev

  libavcodec-ffmpeg56

  libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56

  juju-mongodb3.2

  ceph-test

  ceph

  python3-tables-lib

  python3-tables-dbg

  python-tables-lib

  python-tables-dbg

  python-snappy

  mongodb-server

  mongodb-clients

  libwiredtiger0

  libsnappy-jni

  libshogun16

  librocksdb4.1

  libmtbl0

  libblosc1

  libavcodec-ffmpeg56

  libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56

  juju-mongodb3.2

  juju-mongodb2.6

  juju-mongodb

  ceph-test

  boomaga

  apitrace-gui

  apitrace

  androguard

  ceph

  libleveldb1v5

They are used by the following installed packages:

$ apt-cache rdepends --installed libsnappy1v5 

libsnappy1v5

Reverse Depends:

  libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56

  python3-tables-lib

  python-tables-lib

  libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56

So on my system I can't remove libsnappy1v5 package.