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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: running a snap package on bookworm?
From:       "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans () gmail ! com>
Date:       2024-01-25 20:33:15
Message-ID: 9a84ca76-8e40-40e5-bfab-df67fbec3413 () gmail ! com
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Greg Wooledge wrote on 1/24/24 12:24:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:16:21PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote:
>> 4. But now how do I actually run the program? I tried just running:
>>    $ acrordrdc
> 
> Have you looked at the man page for snap?  It's very long, so I took
> a guess and looked for "run".

Thank you; right at the beginning of the man page it says:

  > The snap command lets you install, configure, refresh and remove snaps

so I didn't think it would be relevant to running a package that was already 
installed.

> 
> run
> Run the given snap command
> 

I read that and think: "but I don't want to run a snap command; I want to run 
an installed snap package".

> The run command executes the given snap command with the right confinement
> and environment.
> 
> Usage: snap [OPTIONS] run [run-OPTIONS] <NAME-OF-SNAP>.<NAME-OF-APP> [<SNAP-APP-ARG>...]
> 

When I try the run command:

$ snap run acrordrdc
unknown command: run
$

I was amazed that I simply couldn't find anything about actually running 
installed packages (plenty of sites tell me how to install a package, but none 
that I looked at then told me how to run the package once it's installed). It 
can't be hard, but obviously I'm misunderstanding something fundamental about 
snap.

    Doc

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