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doc: go away snap

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Snap has caused a number of nonsensical bug reports, and not even the
`--classic` flag seems capable of fixing them. Therefore, remove snap
from the README and put in a special line in the ISSUE_TEMPLATE about
snap.

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@@ -265,17 +265,10 @@ $ curl -LO https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/0.8.1/ripgrep
$ sudo dpkg -i ripgrep_0.8.1_amd64.deb
```
If you're an **Ubuntu** user, ripgrep can be installed from the `snap` store.
* Note that if you are using `16.04 LTS` or later, snap is already installed.
* For older versions you can install snap using
[this guide](https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install-ubuntu).
For the latest stable release:
```
$ sudo snap install --classic rg
```
(N.B. Various snaps for ripgrep on Ubuntu are also available, but none of them
seem to work right and generate a number of very strange bug reports that I
don't know how to fix and don't have the time to fix. Therefore, it is no
longer a recommended installation option.)
If you're a **Rust programmer**, ripgrep can be installed with `cargo`.
* Note that the minimum supported version of Rust for ripgrep is **1.20**,