snapd maintainer here... On 2 October 2017 at 09:49, Brian May <b...@debian.org> wrote:
> Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com> writes: > > > May I ask what would be the benefit for pycharm to be in Debian, when we > > already have the official Jetbrains Toolbox App or the snap package as > > means to install and update the application? > > For what its worth, last time I tried snap on Debian stable I found it > didn't work reliably. > Can you elaborate? Do you have apparmor enabled? I am aware that there are problems on stable currently but being explicit reduces guessing. I hope that once the core snap is updated to get 2.28 things will be better even on stable but I'm not 100% sure. I asked in Stack Overflow, and managed to backport the version of snap > from unstable. Where I encountered exactly the same problems as before: > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46127373/snap- > packages-on-debian-stable Can you try just installing the package from unstable rather than rebuilding it? (sometimes static linking does solve problems :-p) Cheers, mwh So possibly at least one of my problems is a Kernel issue in Debian > stable (at least my current theory), however this seems to indicate to > me that snap is still somewhat bleeding edge and cannot be relied on. > -- > Brian May <b...@debian.org> > >
