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Help, I've Lost Snaps

Asked by Ricardo Diamondo

A few weeks ago I started getting pop-up messages saying that I had 10 days to stop all instances of Snaps. As the deadline was getting nearer I panicked and the only way I could find to stop Snaps was to uninstall it from the Software Centre. But now I find that the icons for Videos etc are not being shown and I'm worried that other items may not be fully working properly.
The software section does have various snaps apps but now I'm not sure which to re-install as there are so many.
Should I just install them all? Or is there a work-around through my terminal?
Not urgent but annoying.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

It seems that you completely misunderstood the message from the snap updater.

I assume that is was the warning telling something like "snap packages are due to be updated, but they cannot be updated while they are running. please close them. After a grace period of ten days the update will be forced"

Which snaps did you uninstall?
You should re-install only those that you had before, not all thousands of available ones.

For diagnostic purposes please provide the output that you receive for the following commands (to be executed in a terminal window):

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
snap list
snap changes
snap refresh

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Ricardo Diamondo (dick-diamond2000) said : 		#2

Thanks for getting back. The message made no mention of the 10 days and I panicked.
After doing as you say, I got:

Linux dark-Lite 5.15.0-50-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 20 13:23:26 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base
bobrossquotes 1.0 128 latest/stable kz6fittycent -
core 16-2.57.2 13886 latest/stable canonical✓ core
core18 20220831 2566 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core20 20220826 1623 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core22 20220706 275 latest/stable canonical✓ base
ffmpeg 4.3.1 1286 latest/stable snapcrafters -
firefox 105.0.3-1 1943 latest/stable mozilla✓ -
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 161 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.6f39565 119 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-42-2204 0+git.d874303 29 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gnome-system-monitor 42.0 181 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535 latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
hunspell-dictionaries-1-7-2004 1.7-20.04+pkg-6fd6 2 latest/stable brlin -
infinitrap-rehamstered 1.0.9 19 latest/stable shadebobgames -
kde-frameworks-5-96-qt-5-15-5-core20 5.96.0 7 latest/stable kde✓ -
kde-frameworks-5-98-qt-5-15-6-core20 5.98.0 9 latest/stable kde✓ -
kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-3-core20 5.87.0 8 latest/stable kde✓ -
kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-core20 5.79.0 14 latest/stable kde✓ -
makemkv 1.17.1 561 latest/stable diddledani✪ -
opensurge 0.6.0.3 84 latest/stable alemart -
qt515-core20 5.15.4 25 latest/stable keshavnrj✪ -
snap-store 41.3-64-g512c0ff 599 latest/stable canonical✓ -
snapd 2.57.2 17029 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd
snaplint 0.2 7 latest/stable ssweeny -
ID Status Spawn Ready Summary
197 Done today at 12:28 BST today at 12:28 BST Install "snaplint" snap from "latest/stable" channel

All snaps up to date.

Which sounds like all is OK, but I've stopped getting icon/images on mp4 files (for example)
I did download snap-store a few days ago and snaplint today, but still no icon images....

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

I agree, the snap environment is correctly installed.

I am not completely sure about the reason that you don't get an icon on mp4 files, but I assume installing a media player may help. I suggest that you install VLC:

sudo snap install vlc

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Ricardo Diamondo (dick-diamond2000) said : 		#4

Thank you Manfred, it seems it's not as bad as I feared.
Many thanks for your help.