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I am running Ubuntu 16.10 with snapd and the basic core snap installed since it was released.

After some time I observed that the /snap/core directory fills up with multiple older versions.

To remove them I'll have to execute sudo snap remove core --revision <number> manually.

Multiple versions of snaps & garbage collection section in
Snaps and snapcraft documentation explains that after every update of a snap package the current version and the one before are installed and older versions are getting automatically removed (just as it was earlier the case).

As I cannot find further information in snap help, I am asking whether there is a setting or a switch command in snapd to enable automatic removal of those older core snap packages.

Additional information : What I described is valid for 3 machines with the same configuration.

Right now I don't believe it's possible to change the number of old versions of any snap, that's set at 3. If you see more than that, it's likely a bug, so should be filed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd

The post https://superuser.com/questions/1310825/how-to-remove-old-version-of-installed-snaps lists several solutions for older snap version removing:

Manual script by popey to delete "all old versions of snaps" - https://superuser.com/a/1330590

#!/bin/bash

# https://superuser.com/a/1330590

# Removes old revisions of snaps

# CLOSE ALL SNAPS BEFORE RUNNING THIS set -eu



snap list --all | awk '/disabled/{print $1, $3}' |

    while read snapname revision; do

        snap remove "$snapname" --revision="$revision"

    done

And "snap set system refresh.retain" setting for "snap 2.34 and later" by Mustapha Hadid to store only 2 revisions of every snap https://superuser.com/a/1361201:

$ sudo snap set system refresh.retain=2 

The refresh.retain value can only be a number between 2 and 20 and has
a default value of 3