Linux novice here.
I’m trying to get VLC to work on my Ubuntu 18.04 Server with an xfce (xubuntu) GUI. The installation commands I used:
sudo apt-get install snapd snapd-xdg-open
snap install vlc --classic
[SNIP]
Warning: flag --classic ignored for strictly confined snap vlc
I can’t open any files with VLC on my storage drives, which are 10 TB (nominal) and 1 TB (nominal) ZFS mirror arrays.
make sure they are monted under /mnt or /media and run:
sudo snap connect vlc:removable-media
that should be enough to give you access…
EDIT: note that a bind mount will do if you do not want to move them around from a different place in the filesystem
The warning is not relevant to the problem you are seeing unless you used --classic to try to turn off the confinement? In that case I think --devmode is the flag to use.
note that --devmode disables automatic updates for the app (while it turns off bits of confinement, it is really what it says, a developer mode (it will also produce a lot of log output))…
Excellent! With the help of this great explanation of bind
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198590/what-is-a-bind-mount
I used your command and it works.
This was a problem for over a year - once I found the right place to ask the question, it was solved very quickly. Thanks, all!
Is this command persistent?
yup, interface connections are a one-time thing after fresh install of a snap. they persist for the lifetime the package is installed (unless you call snap disconnect ... on them).
Thank you. Thanks again!