Questions tagged [snap]
Snap is a packaging format for distributing sandboxed applications on GNU/Linux distributions. Use this tag for all questions related to creating, distributing and running Snaps.
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How to install gimp-help locally on Ubuntu 22.04?
What do I have to do to be able to view the help pages of GIMP on Ubuntu 22.04?
I'm using the snap version of GIMP 2.10.30.
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Unrecognized COMMAND/service 'chipper,' how to find host package? [duplicate]
I'm trying to run a local apache server on a dedicated ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS server machine. However, I can't get apache2 to start. Every time I try sudo systemctl restart apache2 I'm told that it failed ...
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How do I view the manual page for Firefox snap
I'm using Firefox 113.02 on Ubuntu 22.04.
These commands produce nothing:
._. man firefox
No manual entry for firefox
._. find / -name "man" -xdev 2>/dev/null | grep firefox
I can see ...
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I can't open snap programs
I am kidna new to ubuntu and I recently updated ubuntu from 22.04 to 22.10 and then to 23.04 before i upgraded it to 23.04 everything worked fine as usual but after upgrading it all the snap progrms ...
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Firefox can't open download folder
I think that the firefox snap confinement issue that has plagued many is causing this problem, but I'm not sure. My problem is that when I download a file, I typically will click on the "Open ...
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Ubuntu won't boot because of broken Snap
my Ubuntu refuses to boot with the following messages:
/var/lib/snapd... Can't open blockdev
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Failed to mount Mount unit for ...
In addition, my / partition is full. It was full before, before ...
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How launch Firefox snap with profile that is already running
Firefox is broken on a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Xubuntu) with Firefox 113.0.2, installed by the now default method, from Snap.
When I try to launch Firefox with a profile that is already ...
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Unable to launch VsCode
I tried to launch vscode several times from my project directory. This is the error I get each time:
/snap/code/129/usr/share/code/bin/code: 62: /snap/code/129/usr/share/code/bin/../code: not found
I ...
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How do I completely remove LXD from my system?
I am running version 22.04.01 of Ubuntu and I installed LDX using the apt with the lxd-installer package.
How do I completely remove LXD from my system?
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Several snap applications crashing at startup
Several applications like KeepassXC and chromium-browser are crashing at startup. To me it looks like there is an error in snap. I had the same issue with firefox and got it fixed as soon as I took it ...
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Error with snapd. "system does not fully support snapd": cannot mount squashfs image using "squashfs"
I was trying to install snap (or snapd). I used the command: sudo apt install snapd
It seemed to install successfully, but when I went to install the hello-world package from snap I got this error
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Problems after upgrading to 22.04 to 22.04.2 LTS
I've upgraded to 22.04.2 LTS from 22.04 via the update manager and have noticed that many of my apps no longer work. As an example, if I run firefox at the terminal with the command snap run firefox ...
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Bad CJK font rendering only of tabs of Firefox Snap (Ubuntu 23.04)
CJK Fonts are not looking correct but only on tabs/headerbar of the Firefox Snap as of Ubuntu 23.04. Inside the actual page, the fonts are correct as shown in the picture below:
bad rendering of CJK ...
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How can I dismiss "Software Updates Installed" notification?
For days, Software has been nagging me to close snap-store so that it can update itself.
Now that's resolved and it has finally installed various updates, it shows a notification every time I boot up:
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(K)ubuntu keeps replacing Firefox form the PPA with Firefox Snap on system updates [duplicate]
I'm using a custom Firefox setup using the Mozilla Team PPA (following more or less this guide, but not using the unattended update configuration) on Kubuntu 22.04. I also use firejail to run Firefox ...
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How to run the the latest cli version of Monero?
How would I install v18 of the cli monero wallet?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ sudo apt install monero
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state ...
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Firefox display glitches then freezes when resizing on Ubuntu 22.04
I updated to Ubuntu 22.04 a few months ago on a MSI laptop half a year ago and have been having the same recurring display issue with Mozilla Firefox.
Sometimes when resizing the Mozilla window the ...
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Snap applications do not startup randomly
There are some applications like firefox and chromium, spotify that are now recommended to be installed from snap. When I do that on ubuntu 20.04 and ubuntu 22.10, they randomly stop launching.
Win-...
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apt install no longer works for kubernetes. snap install also fails
I've always installed kubernetes with sudo apt install -y kubectl kubeadm kubelet. This now gives the message
No apt package "kubeadm", but there is a snap with that name.
Try "snap ...
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How To Reboot a PC inside snap app (created with Flutter) on Ubuntu 22.04?
I have an Ubuntu 22.04 on my PC, and also i have a snapped Linux app that created with Flutter. I have also a button for rebooting the OS in my Flutter app.
I tried two different methods:
method 1:
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journalctl doesn't show logs of a snap
When I run a snap application in the terminal like this:
/usr/bin/snap run shadowsocks-rust.ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks-rust/config.json
I see the logs:
2023-05-14T18:55:11.714373725+03:00 INFO ...
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Too many simultaneous gnome-x-xx and core loop devices?
I have many simultaneous gnome-x-xx and core loop devices.
Why is that? Is each of them required by any currently installed snap app? What produces the installation of each of those snaps? As per &...
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What are these mounted volumes and how to get rid of them (snaps?)
I'm using gnome on 22.04 for a couple weeks and these volumes have appeared on my taskbar.
They annoyingly stick around whether mounted or unmounted, and their names are unclear. I suspect they are ...
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updated error but repo is not in the sources.list?
I installed a small program, "speedtest-clt" It's a snap but it's old not touched in 2 years.
It works well enough, but when I update my system it's causing issues.
Err:8 https://...
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Snap sees a more recent version of Firefox, but won't refresh to it?
I'm trying to update Firefox on one of my computers to the latest version, and it won't seem to refresh even though it shows that a newer version is available. Has anyone seen this, or similar, ...
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Pending snap update configuration option
Like a lot of users, I have recently run into snap issues where it keeps telling giving me notifications that the apps I'm using will close in 14 days, 13, 12, etc... There's a lot of questions ...
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Firefox snap unable to open webpages via command line if Firefox is running
I installed the Mozilla Firefox ESR snap using sudo snap install firefox --channel=esr/stable. When Firefox is not running, firefox 'https://askubuntu.com' successfully opens this website in Firefox. ...
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Snaps don't launch after fixing issue with them not appearing in launcher
I'm having an issue where my Snap apps are not launching whenever I click on them.
The first issue was that they weren't showing up in the launcher, but I did some digging and it seems it was related ...
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Error installing PyCharm on Ubuntu: 'cannot mount squashfs image using squashfs: exec: mount: executable file not found in $PATH [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. I got the error when try to install PyCharm using snap package. I also got:
error: system does not fully support snapd: cannot mount squashfs image using "squashfs": ...
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Moving any window out of Firefox crashes the system
Using the latest Firefox (112.0.2 (64-bit (snap) with the latest Ubuntu (23.04). Moving any window out of Firefox (for example a browser tab or any downloads) crashes the desktop. Any idea what causes ...
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Uninstalling snapd broke networking on Ubuntu Server 22.04
While working on a different problem I decided to uninstall snapd on one of my Ubuntu Server 22.04 boxes because I wasn't using it. Now that it is removed the server refuses all network connections. I ...
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Is there an equivalent snap command to the Flatpak's `permission-show` and `permission-set`?
I am asking, because I have to handle a permission problem with a Firefox webextension and the sandboxed Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04. (See https://github.com/mi-g/vdhcoapp/issues/139)
The solution turns ...
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Can't run snap apps
I'm running Ubuntu 22.10 and I'm having an issue where if I run this command in my .xinitrc file snap apps aren't able to run.
exec dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session dwm
However, if I just ...
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Give a snap access to a specific folder in home directory, but not to the full home directory
I would like to allow a snap to access / read / write to a given folder $HOME/some_folder/*, without giving it access to my full $HOME/* (since access to $HOME/some_folder is enough for this snap to ...
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Is there a way to have snapd start while I'm logging in
systemd-analyze critical-chain suggests that snap-related services are the main cause of startup latency on my system:
graphical.target @3.300s
└─multi-user.target @3.299s
└─snapd.seeded.service @3....
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Error finding matching public key for signature with ubuntu-image device
I am following the tutorial for creating a Ubuntu Core image on the Ubuntu website and getting an error. Here is the link to the instructions:
https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/create-model-assertion
The ...
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Location of policies.json for snap installation of brave browser?
Where can one place the/a policies.json file such that the snap installation of the brave browser recognises it?
this discussion suggests /etc/brave/policies or /etc/brave/policies/managed. That is ...
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Why is snap bugging me about Firefox when I already have the latest installed? [duplicate]
So I regularly see this:
while accroding to snap itself, I'm already running the latest, which is confirmed by the Firefox's About dialog:
How do I tell snap to shut up?
Running Kubuntu 22.04...
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The system not support snapd in Ubuntu 23.04
sudo snap install hello-world
[sudo] password for noax:
error: system does not fully support snapd: cannot mount
squashfs image using "squashfs": ----- mount:
/tmp/syscheck-...
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FUSE mounted filesystems and snap applications
I've seen lots of questions asking about snap applications and trying to use them to access FUSE mounted file systems. But none of the responses to those questions that I can find give or link to ...
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how to restore lost sessions, bookmarks and history in Chromium
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04LTS. I've had problems with chromium giving "not responding errors" and freezing up, and greying out. Even only 1 tab open caused the problem. I tried uninstalling and ...
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Snap Store require authentication to install application
Back to Ubuntu after long time away from it, installed latest version 23.04. When I opened snap store gui to install application, snap store showing error message:
Unable to install app: ...
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Why doesn't Snap install Gnome automatically if Firefox can't be opened without it?
Firefox wasn't opening on Kubuntu for me. When I ran it via terminal I got the following error.
Error: not connected to gnome-3-38-2004 content interface.
Why does Firefox depends on Gnome on Kubuntu?...
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Sever is not comming up with ubuntu 22.04 liver server image [duplicate]
I am trying to build new ubuntu 22.04.1 liver server image error screenshot
The hardware is DELL PowerEdge R540
In the installation screen I chose "try or Install" option
but the server is ...
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Firefox and Chromium from snaps unusable due to graphical glitches
After upgrading Ubuntu to 23.04, I can no longer use Firefox nor Chromium provided as snaps.
First, this is how Chromium looks like:
glitchy Chromium ran from snap package
Firefox from snap behaves ...
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unable to start file from script using remmina snap
I have remmina installed through snap, all persmissions required for remmine in snap (including home dir) are set correctly.
Starting remmina through kde launcher works
starting remmina in Konsole ...
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What is the reason that snapd is installed via apt and snap in Ubuntu?
I see that snapd on Ubuntu 22.04 is installed via apt, but snap info also suggests that snapd is also installed as a snap package. Is there a good reason to keep it that way?
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How to build Snap including multiple directories and files in Snapcraft.yaml
Is there a example in https://github.com/snapcrafters that would show how to add multiple directories and files as part of the snapcraft build?
I have an entire directory tree that would need to be ...
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How to find out available plugs for a Snap
Is there a way to find out the available plugs for a particular Snap?
I'd like to run the following command:
snap connect pciutils:<plug> :system-observe
However, how do I know what to replace &...
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Snap and System broken
As I was running low on space I tried to move my snap to another disk following the answer from Muhammad here: Move snap packages to another location/directory
It broke everything and I cant get it ...
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