bob:bob (or use the environment variable $USER). (replace and with whatever are your user and group. To solve this I just changed the owner of my snap directory (and everything that was inside) with sudo chown : -R ~/snap (You can check the permissions, the user owner and the group of that directory with ls -al ~ | grep snap and similarly for what's inside with ls -al ~/snap) During the copying process, that directory got copied as owned by the root user. This was happening because when I installed a fresh Ubuntu 20, I copied data from a backup of my previous system (CentOS), which had a snap directory inside my user's home directory. Mkdir /home//snap/snap-store: permission denied When I tried to run it I got a permission denied error: WARNING: cannot create user data directory:Ĭannot create '/home//snap/snap-store/454': If snap-store is the one that is not working, I can tell you what was my problem (maybe you have a similar one). Sudo apt autoremove gnome-software & sudo apt install gnome-software If if gnome-software is the one that doesn't work, you may try to follow karel instructions: sudo apt clean # clean list of cached packages so Ubuntu Software can read them Then, google again with the new information that you got. Open a terminal ( Ctrl + Alt + t, or windowsKey and then search forterminal, or click on show applications on your dock/taskbar and then search forterminal`) To find out more information about why either of the 2 is failing, try to open them from a terminal: (the tooltip for this is Ubuntu Software). I didn't have this one docked to my taskbar on a fresh Ubuntu 20 installation.) (If you hover your mouse over this on your dock/taskbar you get the tooltop Software.

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