Geany installed using snap won't start

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 1:42 PM Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:

> Using Mint 18.3
>
> I installed Geany from the snap store. When I try to run it I get this
> message:  Failed to open file '/share/geany/geany.glade': No such file
> or directory
>
...

> Could use some help figuring this out.
>

I decided to try it here to see what it does on this Ubuntu 19.10 system
(see the end of this message). Unless we're looking at something different,
I think unfortunately the answer may be that the snap version of Geany is
simply not ready to use; you'll want to look elsewhere.... Besides it
doesn't appear to be the latest version of Geany. It may be someone's "pet"
project and they haven't figured out how to publish a snap. If for some
reason you want to help debug the snap version, you'll want to contact the
person who published it.

I don't use Mint but I assume it's on the Ubuntu Bionic repository, which
seems to contain Geany 1.32-2. Not the latest, but not much older than the
snap. It should be easier to install and use than a broken snap version...

$ snap install geany
> error: snap "geany" not found
> $ snap search geany
> Name       Version      Publisher  Notes  Summary
> geany-gtk  1.33.01+git  fehfeh1    -      A fast and lightweight IDE
> $ snap install geany-gtk
> error: snap "geany-gtk" is not available on stable but is available to
> install
>        on the following channels:
>
>        edge       snap install --edge geany-gtk
>
>        Please be mindful pre-release channels may include features not
>        completely tested or implemented. Get more information with 'snap
> info
>        geany-gtk'.
> $ snap info geany-gtk
> name:      geany-gtk
> summary:   A fast and lightweight IDE
> publisher: Felicia Hendrickson (fehfeh1)
> license:   Proprietary
> description: |
>   Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It
> was
>   developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few
>   dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent
> as
>   possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME. So it is
>   using only the GTK+ toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK+ runtime
>   libraries to run Geany.
>   grade: devel # must be 'stable' to release into candidate/stable channels
>   confinement: devmode # use 'strict' once you have the right plugs
> snap-id: S2sVU2k0VX6qEqR36p7FTvDcL8oBrBfR
> channels:
>   stable:    –
>   candidate: –
>   beta:      –
>   edge:      1.33.01+git 2020-01-26 (329) 100MB -
> $
>



 $ apt show geany

Package: geany
> Version: 1.35-1
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/devel
> Origin: Ubuntu
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Original-Maintainer: Geany Packaging Team <
> pkg-geany-team at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
> Installed-Size: 3,514 kB
> Provides: geany-abi-18432, geany-api-239
> Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.27), libcairo2 (>= 1.8.0),
> libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>=
> 2.41.1), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0),
> libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), geany-common (=
> 1.35-1)
> Suggests: libvte9, doc-base
> Breaks: geany-plugins-common (<< 0.21)
> Homepage: http://www.geany.org
> Download-Size: 1,123 kB
> APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/universe amd64
> Packages
> Description: fast and lightweight IDE
>  Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment.
>  It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a
>  few dependencies from other packages. It is using only the GTK2 toolkit
>  and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run Geany.
>  .
>  The basic features of Geany are:
>   - syntax highlighting
>   - code completion
>   - auto completion of constructs like if, for and while, XML and HTML
>   - call tips
>   - folding
>   - many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
>   - symbol lists
>   - embedded terminal emulation
> $
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