Firstly - snapd is a service to install snap packages, that’s not the final program you’re looking to install. I personally would strongly suggest not using snaps - you can search here on the forum if you want to know more about why not, I’m not going into it here.
What is the actual program you want to use? If it’s available in the AUR, i would get it from there.
Next, if you want snapd just install it from the AUR yay -S snapd. FYI you may need to start and enable the socket as per the wiki.
It kinda doesn’t matter if you think snaps are awful or not guys. The app is TradingView (as specified in the post above) and is only packaged as a snap for Arch. It’s not in the AUR, there’s no flatpak or appimage. Debating the merits of snapd in this context isn’t helpful considering the OP has no other option.
@Monty
I had no issue installing snapd or trading view.
Edit: Instructions are on the link i posted above. You have two choices. Install snapd via the AUR or build the package. Once done reboot and install trading view. You have to enable the snapd socket first. It’s all in the instructions.
Edit2: There were a couple of dependency issues when i built the package but it was easy.
Edit3: There may be an issue with the snapd AUR package but i didn’t try it.
I didn’t realize that, I saw something at post 19 where they were trying to build snapd.
Personally, I’d find something else. Or, if I have to use it, I’d probably just use it under windows. It’s not worth ruining the entire rest of my install for one snap package. BUT, if that’s all they have, I guess a snap it is. I was just trying to help install snapd as requested. I still stand by my assertation that it’s a really bad idea. But, I believe everyone has a right to their own choices, and is entitled to the consequences of them.
Watching stock market. I don’t know of anything similar because i really don’t have any experience with this one. I just tried to install it to see what the problem was. I think the OP didn’t get snapd installed as the AUR package has an issue? I installed it by building it and then installed tradingview.
Edit: I just noticed the OP has the same instructions as i posted so I’m not sure where the difficulty is.
There are other apps for this work but this one is the Linux of trading I will try to install it again and see what happens. Thank you for your interest and support.
Cheers
Oh yeah, there was a ridiculous example of a GitHub project that had a script deleting some config file in the user’s home directory or something like that. However, the command to delete it had one unintended space character in it and so it would delete the entire home directory. It was something like rm -rf ~/ .config/some_file instead of rm -rf ~/.config/some_file. Several people lost all their data because of that program.
I can’t remember what it was, but there was a post about it here on the forum…
EDIT: Found it:
It was actually the /usr directory that got deleted. So it wasn’t as bad as I remember it, but still, bad enough that several people had to reinstall their OSs. The author’s excuse:
Many thanks for these simple, though very concrete instructions to manually build a package from AUR. I did it for Typora, one of my favorite markdown editors (although my main one now is Obsidian), that was free while in beta (during something like 4 years !) but went commercial, earlier this year.
This manual build is a small exercise in using the terminal, so is great.
I have come across some of your other comments and/or instructions, and they are equally clear, to the point, easy to follow. Many thanks for that too.
In the future, if no one has commented on a thread for over 6 months, no need to leave a comment. You can just like the thread or a specific post. That’s good enough.
And if it’s about a similar issue that you may be having, you may open your own thread and paste a link to the old one.
I will try to install it again and see what happens. Thank you for your interest and support.
