On archlinux, /snap/bin is not added to the $PATH

[Leo Arias]

I installed snapd in archlinux. It works fine, but I have to use the full path to start the snap binaries:

$ sudo snap install hello
$ hello
bash: hello: command not found
$ /snap/bin/hello
Hello, world!

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

this is noarmally added by the /etc/profile.d/apps-bin-path.sh snippet,
does the arch package not ship it or did you just not re-login yet after installing snapd ?

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

You have to reboot / logout/login for the path to be added. I just tested this with Antergos, and the PATH had /snap/bin added after a reboot (I didn't try logout/in).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Snapd#Installation clearly specifies this. "Tip: snapd installs a script in /etc/profile.d/ to export the paths of binaries installed with the snapd package and desktop entries. Reboot once to make this change take effect."

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Further testing reveals a simple logout/login adds the path to the environment variable.

[Shuduo Sang (sangshuduo)]

I happened to install arch linux 20170301 on a virtualbox then install snapd with "pacman -S snapd".
The /etc/profile.d/apps-bin-path.sh on my side is:

# Expand the $PATH to include /snaps/bin which is what snappy applications
# use
PATH=$PATH:/snap/bin

if [ -z "$XDG_DATA_DIRS" ]; then
    XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop
else
    XDG_DATA_DIRS="$XDG_DATA_DIRS":/var/lib/snapd/desktop
fi
export XDG_DATA_DIRS

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

PATH is updated on next log-in / reboot. This is hard to do in any other way unfortunately.