Posts Tagged: Tech Tips

This won’t mean much to many, but there seems to be a small number of people stymied by a weird problem: some Snap apps won’t work on Linux. You install a Snap app, and it might work the first time you launch it. But every subsequent time you launch the app, nothing happens. There’s no error message or indication that anything is wrong; your app just won’t start. If you run snap run appname in your terminal, you won’t see anything, either, but the app still won’t launch. I’d had this issue with a couple of Snap apps (namely the Authy two-factor authentication app and HEY Mail). It’s an issue that’s frustrated me for a year, and one for which I’ve searched in vain for a solution. But the apps weren’t critical enough that I spent any serious effort tracking down the issue until now.