I can't use snap packages, even if installed

Question

I installed Spotify, VS Code and Atom snap packages. I used them a couple of days. Today, I can't use them. There are two different problems:

1. They aren't in Gnome Launcher with all other programs.

2. I can't use them starting them via cli because "command not found". I'm using zsh.

Solution

[SOLUTION to QUESTION1]

There is some kind of bug in I-do-not-know-where. To temporally solve this, I had to copy programname.desktop from /snap/programname/current/programname.desktop to /usr/share/applications (with sudo) and then all was fixed: programname shows in the gnome menus.

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[SOLUTION to QUESTION2]

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:

emulate sh -c 'source /etc/profile'

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Comments

[Fabby]

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! :-) The last command is dangerous when run from the root directory! Could you edit and expand and provide exact details for the packages the OP is referring to?

[Nissaar]

@Fabby is this okay ?

[Cirelli94]

Ok, i removed atom folder from ~/snap/atom . Sadly this doesn't solve my problem :(

[Nissaar]

build it again if it still fails use 'mkdir name' to make a new directory and build atom there. Then use 'cd name' to access the directory and run atom from there.

[Cirelli94]

@Nissaar Why do you use the term 'build'? I'm just installing it with snap install... I do not choose any folder!

[Nissaar]

in every snap tutorial ive seen 'build the snap.' And not 'install snap'. Ive seen that for travis, offlineimap etc... maybe im wrongly using the word. Did it work ?

[Cirelli94]

I can't 'build' any snap in any folder. I just snap install atom. If I do mkdir atom & cd atom & snap install atom it makes no sense to me to do something like this.....

[Cirelli94]

To have an idea where snaps are installed etcetera askubuntu.com/a/976039/396145

[m93a]

Related snapd bug: bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1775340

[m93a]

emulate sh -c 'source /etc/profile' breaks oh-my-zsh themes for me

[Cirelli94]

try emulate sh -c 'source /etc/profile.d/apps-bin-path.sh' as in the linked question