Fedora 29: Can't install '--classic' snaps

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Hi,

I’m taking part of the ‘Fedora challange’ by Jason Evangelho and thought that this would be a great idea to write a script that installs all my favorite tools via snap so I don’t have to worry about the package names in the Ubuntu or Fedora repositories.

Unfortunately I already got stuck at the first snap install. :wink: I can’t install VScode on a fresh Fedora 29 installation.

Snap version:

[peter@tp450s fedora]$ snap version
snap    2.37.4-2.fc29
snapd   2.37.4-2.fc29
series  16
fedora  29
kernel  4.20.13-200.fc29.x86_64

Installation & error message:

[peter@tp450s fedora]$ sudo snap install vscode --classic
[sudo] Passwort für peter: 
error: cannot install "vscode": classic confinement requires snaps under /snap or symlink from
       /snap to /var/lib/snapd/snap

Is this a known error and or a workaround?

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Create a symlink /snap that points to /var/lib/snapd/snap:

ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap

that’s what the error is trying to tell you (yes we should improve it).

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Thanks. Should I report this as a bug?

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This is not a bug but a restriction from Fedora IIRC, refer Installing snap on Fedora - Documentation for snaps: Universal Linux packages for more info.

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Thank you! Worked like a charm!