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Yousef Saber
Asked: 2018-07-02 23:27:49 +0800 CST

I can't install snaps

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According to snapcraft website vlc, Firefox are available as a snap format

https://snapcraft.io/vlc https://snapcraft.io/firefox

but when I try to install any of them via the command line they couldn't be installed does anyone have any fixes for this

yousef@yousef-G31M-ES2L:~$ sudo apt-get install snapd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
snapd is already the newest version (2.32.9).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
yousef@yousef-G31M-ES2L:~$ sudo snap install firefox
error: snap "firefox" not found
yousef@yousef-G31M-ES2L:~$ sudo snap install vlc
error: snap "vlc" not found

This is my system information:

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firefox vlc snap

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The apps you are trying to install are 64-bit applications but you use a 32-bit OS, that's the reason why you can't install them. Your machine should be able to run 64-bit-OS though.

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