Geany installed using snap won't start

[Jim]

On 2/11/20 3:17 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 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...

I can't remember which version of Ubuntu Mint 18.3 is based on but it's 
Geany is 1.27 so it must be older. I just wanted to try out Geany so I 
thought a snap would be a good way to install something that may not 
last the day.

I looked a little and couldn't find a .deb from somewhere I was familiar 
with so I guess I will install 1.27 from Mint's repository and test it 
out. If I like it I'll figure out how to get a more up to date copy.

Thanks,  Jim