Re: snap in debian

[Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>]

snapd maintainer here...

On 2 October 2017 at 09:49, Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:

Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> writes:

> May I ask what would be the benefit for pycharm to be in Debian, when we
> already have the official Jetbrains Toolbox App or the snap package as
> means to install and update the application?

For what its worth, last time I tried snap on Debian stable I found it
didn't work reliably.

Can you elaborate? Do you have apparmor enabled? I am aware that there are problems on stable currently but being explicit reduces guessing.

I hope that once the core snap is updated to get 2.28 things will be better even on stable but I'm not 100% sure.

I asked in Stack Overflow, and managed to backport the version of snap
from unstable. Where I encountered exactly the same problems as before:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46127373/snap-packages-on-debian-stable

Can you try just installing the package from unstable rather than rebuilding it? (sometimes static linking does solve problems :-p)

Cheers,

mwh

So possibly at least one of my problems is a Kernel issue in Debian
stable (at least my current theory), however this seems to indicate to
me that snap is still somewhat bleeding edge and cannot be relied on.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>