Chromium installation error in Lubuntu 20.04

Question

I've installed Lubuntu 20.04 x64, and wanted to install chromium browser.

I used the command-

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

but it displayed-

=> Installing the chromium snap 
==> Checking connectivity with the snap store
==> Installing the chromium snap
2020-04-24T16:08:43 INFO Waiting for restart...

It remained stuck at this message for almost an hour, until I've to finally kill the process.

Solution 1

Snaps install through its service snapd and the client snap; that client failed for reasons unknown, so you must clear away the failed install. Run

sudo snap remove chromium-browser 

before trying again to reinstall. If reinstalling also fails, kill the snap client process again, and reset the Snap state using this script

Solution 2

I had the same issue during an upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. During the installation of the Chromium snap package, I would see this message:

INFO waiting for automatic snapd restart

And then the installation process was just doing nothing as that automatic restart never happened. So I unlocked progress in the installation process again by executing the expected restart manually:

sudo service snapd restart

Comments

[kamer_kane]

Can you be specific with what's happening? I am not getting it much.

[K7AAY]

See above, including the web links.

[kamer_kane]

Ok, I retried it, and it got installed, but, it took much data than expected (since I work on a limited data plan). Did it installed all the necessary snap files before installing chromium?

[K7AAY]

It had to. I am not a big fan of snaps because of behavior like this

[membersound]

This also helped on a stucked do-release-upgrade .

[Jerther]

Thought of doing this on a stuck do-release-upgrade also, but it finally completed after about two minutes. Patience is a virtue it seems ;)

[bastistician]

I can confirm the long waiting time. The snapd restart completed only after 5 minutes on my machine. No manual intervention necessary.