Debian Snap Core Install Error

I’m trying to install snap. The install for snapd seems to go fine but, then when I attempt to install

sudo snap install core

I get this error:

$ sudo snap install core
error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/core: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory

I’m using MX Linux which is a Debian (Buster) distro. “DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 10 (buster)”

I’m new to Linux, which may be part of the problem. But, I uninstalled snapd and re-installed via the MX package manager - hoping maybe that would fix the problem. It did not.

snap version gives this output:

$ snap version
snap 2.37.4-1+b1
snapd unavailable
series -

Looking in root folders I see one labeled snap, it appears to be empty.

Hmm, …

Any assistance you can offer would be appreciated.

MX Linux is not supported with snapd since it does not use systemd and snapd depends on systemd.

Thank you.

That does not make me happy, but thank you.