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It can be done, but it is quite irritating with the way that canonical have made snap a dependency in the minimal meta package. (And minimal on Ubuntu is really really super minimal, doesn't even have ping. Well apart from snap anyway).

They really went out of their way to make it awkward and annoying to take snap out.

But why bother running Ubuntu at all just to jump through hoops to avoid snaps? Snaps are obviously Ubuntus the thing, so feels counterproductive to run Ubuntu and fight against it.

Most of our servers are Debian (well, mine are Devuan) but there are a few that have to be Ubuntu or Redhat for official support of COTS.

Of those choices, I prefer Ubuntu as being closer to the Debian/Devuan ones.

use debootstrap to install instead, chroot is your friend. It comes with nothing and I mean that literally while still having the superior ubuntu kernel.