What tools to work with pkgs installed thru snap system

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Sun Dec 5 14:25:55 UTC 2021


On 12/4/21 1:46 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 04/12/2021 19:21, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
>> On Sat, 04 Dec 2021 18:58:03 +0000
>> Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/12/2021 00:11, hput via ubuntu-users wrote:
>>>> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>    
>>>>> Personally I think that snap is a disaster.
>>>
>>> I concluded this at my last full installation (Mint 21), when snapd
>>> seemed to have hung while installing.
>>
>> Is it snap or Mint??

I believe that snap is disabled by default on Mint. If I remember 
correctly there is some type to stub file that prevents it's installation.

> Good question. I've never had any problem with Mint itself.
> Most problems are with applications themselves, so not OS-related.
> Snap is essentially an application.
> 
>> I have Ubuntustudio on one box, Xubuntu on another rarely any issue. On
>> the 3rd is Mint, there is one annoyance after another.
> 
> What issues are you seeing?


Regards,  Jim
> Peter
> 






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