I reckon he means get rid of snap caused it turned a trivial task into a
difficult one.

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, 08:10 Olivier Tilloy, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean with that last comment. Can you please
> elaborate?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886414
>
> Title:
>   the chromium snap takes a long time to install without visible user
>   feedback, seems stuck
>
> Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   after an initial attemp to install where the progress got stuck at
>   20%, i rebooted as there were a bunch of other system updates that had
>   been applied after a fresh isntall.
>
>   Now chromium wont install
>
>   dantheperson@danski:~$ sudo apt install chromium-browser
>   Reading package lists... Done
>   Building dependency tree
>   Reading state information... Done
>   The following packages will be upgraded:
>     chromium-browser
>   1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>   1 not fully installed or removed.
>   Need to get 48.4 kB of archives.
>   After this operation, 164 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>   Get:1 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64
> chromium-browser amd64 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 [48.4 kB]
>   Fetched 48.4 kB in 0s (1,527 kB/s)
>   Preconfiguring packages ...
>   (Reading database ... 185728 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to unpack
> .../chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ...
>   => Installing the chromium snap
>   ==> Checking connectivity with the snap store
>   ==> Installing the chromium snap
>   error: snap "chromium" has "install-snap" change in progress
>   dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
>    new chromium-browser package pre-installation script subprocess
> returned error exit status 10
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb
>   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>   ProblemType: Package
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
>   Package: chromium-browser 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44
>   Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
>   AptOrdering:
>    chromium-browser:amd64: Install
>    NULL: ConfigurePending
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
>   Date: Mon Jul  6 23:39:11 2020
>   Dependencies:
>
>   ErrorMessage: new chromium-browser package pre-installation script
> subprocess returned error exit status 10
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-06 (0 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64
> (20200423)
>   Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.2, python3-minimal,
> 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
>   PythonDetails: N/A
>   RelatedPackageVersions:
>    dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
>    apt  2.0.2ubuntu0.1
>   SourcePackage: chromium-browser
>   Title: package chromium-browser 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 failed to
> install/upgrade: new chromium-browser package pre-installation script
> subprocess returned error exit status 10
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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