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Just updated to Ubuntu 16.04 & trying snap packages for first time.
So I needed meshlab to view some stl files. Ran in to issue with p-i-t-n log in. Found that command line install of snap packages does not need the log in. Did:
sudo snap install meshlab
and hey presto meshlap installed, no pitn log in. Works fine from command line. However program does not show up in the launcher. Why is this? Do snap packages not show up in launcher? How can I fix this?
Note that sudo isn't necessary. snap find and snap install will work just fine without it.
snap find only shows promoted and public snaps in the stable channel. By curating snaps in this way, users can expect a degree of quality when using snap find for app discovery.
If you'd like to know all the snaps that exist, try uappexplorer:
$ snap install uappexplorer-cli
$ uappexplorer-cli --type snap
┌────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┬───────────────┬──────┬──────┐
│ App │ Description │ Type │ ❤ │ ★ │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼───────────────┼──────┼──────┤
│ test-snapd-cups-c… │ A basic snap declaring a… │ Snap │ 0 │ 0 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼───────────────┼──────┼──────┤
│ test-snapd-fuse-c… │ A basic snap declaring a… │ Snap │ 0 │ 0 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼───────────────┼──────┼──────┤
│ lcavassa-iperf │ A TCP, UDP, and SCTP net… │ Snap │ 0 │ 0 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼───────────────┼──────┼──────┤
│ deadbeef-vs │ The Ultimate Music Playe… │ Snap │ 0 │ 0 │
├────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼───────────────┼──────┼──────┤
Maybe Dell changed some things, I'd ask them 1st if the laptop came with Ubuntu.
Otherwise install compizconfig-settings-manager & look in the unity plugin > Launcher, see screen. The x button on far right sets to default which is Super & enabled.
Best Answer
If you are using zsh, the snap binary and desktop directories will not automatically be added to your environment variables. In order to solve this, I added the following line to /etc/zsh/zprofile (taken from Arch):
This will process your /etc/profile file with bash emulation, which in turn sources /etc/profile.d/* and sets the proper PATHs, etc.
To add only the snap directories to your path, without including all the rest of the default bash profile: