Have a feeling this will crop up a lot. I too am in NZ and was doing a
routine apt upgrade of chromium-browser on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
First time, it decided to install the chromium snap and appeared stuck
at 14%. (There was a bug, reporting identical symptoms, back in May.
It's been expired because
I'm glad this worked, and thanks for the feedback.
I know that the snap store uses a CDN to serve snaps, it could be that NZ isn't
favoured with the current setup. This is just a blind guess, I suggest you ask
about it on https://forum.snapcraft.io/.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
ok thanks that worked a treat.
Running snap directly there was a progress indicator so i could see that
snap downloads are very very very slow. 200kb/s. I'm on a a basic
residential 100Mbits fibre line, so apt downloading deps from the ubuntu
mirror is usually quick, 10MB/s. So the snap
Can you try installing the snap using the "snap install chromium" command?
Please let us know how this goes, and if it succeeds you should be able to
safely install the deb wrapper ("apt install chromium-browser").
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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ok after 20 mins i abort again. snap reports the following
==> Installing the chromium snap
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Download snap "chromium" (1213) from channel "stable" (context canceled)
dpkg: error processing archive
ok i found 'snap changes' and did snap abort.
Now stuck on 20% again...
antheperson@danski:~$ snap changes
ID Status SpawnReadySummary
1Donetoday at 23:24 NZST today at 23:26 NZST Initialize system state
2Donetoday at 23:24 NZST today at
