I tried again with:
sudo apt purge snapd (instead of just remove)
reboot
sudo apt install snapd
As the final message was:
"snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it"
I did:
sudo systemctl start snapd.service
And it worked!
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You received this bug
I got the same error in Ubuntu 18.04 updated from Ubuntu 16.04.
I tried:
sudo systemctl restart snapd.service
And I got:
Job for snapd.service failed because the control process exited with error
code.
See "systemctl status snapd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
I tried: