mount error when installed using snap

Question

On Ubuntu 16.04, I installed cloudcompare using snap following:

sudo snap install cloudcompare

However, I get the following error when trying to launch it:

$ sudo cloudcompare.CloudCompare 
cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /home /tmp/snap.rootfs_AUR1hM//home: Permission denied

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

Try running it without sudo? I tried running with sudo and got a different error related to permission, but running it without works for me.

EDIT:

The answer above is wrong. According to this bug, this will happen when /home is a symlink to a different directory.

To fix this, you need your /home directory to be a real directory. You can run the following command to remove the symlink and create an actual directory in /home.

sudo rm -R /home && sudo mkdir -p /home/${whoami} && sudo chmod ugo+rwx /home/$whoami

Alternatively, you can create a different user to run cloudcompare if you do not wish to modify your system.