The snap format

[dimitri]

Please document this caveat in bold: Symlinks to snaps don’t work:

/usr/bin/here_is_a_symlink -> $SNAP/bin/mysnap

In this case the symlink will run /usr/bin/snap instead of $SNAP/bin/mysnap.

See:

Symlinks and /snap/bin structure?

@lucyllewy Indeed: $ sudo ln -s /snap/bin/openfortivpn /bin/openfortivpn $ $ /bin/openfortivpn --version 1.13.3 $ $ sudo ln -s /snap/bin/openfortivpn /bin/some_other_name $ $ /bin/some_other_name --version snap 2.44.2+20.04 snapd 2.44.2+20.04 series 16 ubuntu 20.04 kernel 5.4.0-21-generic $ It makes sense of course now that you have told us, but this caveat should probably be documented in bold. Is there any way this could be avoided? Wouldn’t it be technically possible to have sn…