The installation of snaps goes perfectly well, but whenever I try to run a snap after the installation nothing happens (e.g. Notes won't start from the dash). Also non-GUI snaps like hello don't work:

$ hello
cannot locate the core snap: No such file or directory

How could I fix this problem?

2 Answers

I have the hello snap, notes and core installed on my computer and all of them work fine.

$ snap list
Name Version Rev Developer Notes
core 16.04.1 714 canonical -
hello 2.10 20 canonical -
notes 0.9.0~gitb6e3b34 4 notes-developers - 

When the hello snap is installed, the core snap is installed along with it if core is not already installed. Try updating the core snap:

sudo snap refresh core 

If core is already installed the following message will be shown:

snap "core" has no updates available

Your results of running sudo snap refresh core were as follows:

sudo snap refresh core error: cannot refresh "core": cannot find snap "core"

So uninstall the core snap and then reinstall it.

sudo snap remove core hello
sudo snap install hello # core will also be installed automatically

Hello is a terminal app that runs like this.

$ hello
Hello, world!

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I did:

sudo snap install core

And that did the trick. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

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