Could not find info on adding permissions to a snap. Gimp is a snap and it allows access to where I want to go.
16.04 is at the end of it’s life so I am going to try upgrading to 18.04.
Each snap has its own sandboxing rules. I’m not sure about snaps much more than that. If I find a free moment, I’ll try and have a look.
@paperdigits
Wasn’t there just very recently a similar sandboxing issue somewhere here?
… sorry for being lazy, I’m on GMT+7 and need to get some sleep now 
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I meant this one
I’m ready to go back to Windoz. Upgraded to 18.04 and lost video drivers for nvidia graphics card. Had to use terminal commands to load drivers. This is ridiculous, graphics card should be automatically detected. Then I had to resort to more Dr. Google to get instructions to get Darktable to load correctly. In windowz all I do is click on an executable and any program will install easily. Rant over.
I can now see all my drives.
This worked:
$ wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics:darktable/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key -O Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install darktable
Just wait until Windoze does a forced reboot to install a new spyware update while you are in the middle of something critical. YMMV.
Hey there, snap maintainer here.
The snap is strictly confined, which means you need to connect the removable-media interface to give the snap permission to utilize things in /media/ or /mnt/. You can do that with the following command:
$ sudo snap connect darktable:removable-media
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Why would you assume you know where all of us have photos stored for processing. I dont understand why ?
I used DT on mint 19.1, and now on 19.2 mint you are telling me where my data is.
Is this right?
Im not sure I like the snap concept anyway. Now I’m struggling to use DT in a snapd format.
Done that and no progress.
If a snap app is confined who tells the dev team where we store data.
Nobody is assuming anything. This is how the snap confinent model works.
Then don’t use it. Nobody is forcing you to do so. Mint supports flatpak out-of-the-box or you can use the Ubuntu PPA.
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I am not saying Im being forced to do a thing. Its inconvenient that the confinement is limiting in conception.
I think I’m liking flatpack even less
I think I’ll dump snap and flatpak and use DT in win 10 and wait for an appimage version to surface.
My main problem is DT wont open in mint 19.2, stopped on 19.1. I need it, but cant allow a bloat app version to completely change my workflow.
ps.
I have not used windows for any critical work for 10yrs.
What OS you use is your choice.
There are people here that’ll help you, but you need to provide way more detail and have a positive attitude.
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Reordering your thoughts from your last post…
leads me to agree with @paperdigits. Why not use the PPA? You won’t need to change OS to something unfamiliar (Win 10 is not the Windows of 10 years ago), you won’t have to deal with the
confinement implemented in the snap, and you won’t have to deal with the bloat of what’s included in the snap.
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Ok guys forgive my late night frustration.
I wont fire up a win 10 instance. frustration talking.
ppa on 19.2 not opening.
repo deb not opening
plus the snap needs permission to read from wherever its pointed.
I’m at aloss to understand why DT isnt being allowed to run in mint 19.2.
I would use a snap for Dt. It seems to make sense for specific apps.
The snap opens so how do I tell this confined snap app to read outside the confinement?
And thanks for going along with me on this.
I know absolutely nothing about building snaps, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think that’s what @kyrofa was helping with in this post:
I did that but no success. Will try again.
Can you see why Im at a loss.
???
Ok re-installed snap DT, rebooted but not seeing my other drives
Everything is harder when it’s late and you’re frustrated.
As I mentioned before, I know nothing about snap packaging, so I would have to do some learning myself in order to be able to help you. But I’m pretty sure that those who do know a thing or two would want:
- the Mint release (19.2, you provided that)
- the darktable snap release
- the actual messages issued when it failed to access the removable media, or an indication that there were none
- the actual output from executing the
sudo snap connect darktable:removable-mediacommand
They may want more, but that’s what comes to mind right away.
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Thanks for your help
Ill repartition my hard drive and move my media partition into the home, expand by 120gbs, cos I don’t have time for this.
Yes it’s late and I’m confused, but need to get on with stuff.
Greatly appreciate your help.
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