Yesterday I tried to install an Inkscape plugin I have been using for a long time. I upgraded my system and the plug-in went away. So I download the zip, open Inkscape, open the plugin manager, go to add the new plugin by file manager… and the opened file manager is unable to see my home directory (weird because when opening Inkscape files it can see home, but when installing extensions it cannot). It took some time to figure out how to get the downloaded file in to a folder the Inkscape snap could see. Somehow though I still could not get it installed. Eventually I uninstalled the snap and installed the .deb version. That worked!

Recently I downloaded an AppImage for digiKam. It immediately crashed when trying to open it, because I believe glibc did not work with my system version (a recent stable Ubuntu).

Last week I needed to install a gnome extension. The standard and seemingly only supported way of doing this is to open a web page, install a Firefox extension, and then click a button on the web page to install it. The page told me to install the Firefox extension and that worked properly. Then it said Firefox didn’t have access to the necessary parts of my file system. It turns out FF is a snap and file system access is limited, so the official way of installing the gnome extension doesn’t work. I ended up having to download and install chrome and install the gnome extension from there.

These new “solutions” have their own problems.