Error using splitting_slaves.py inside terminal

It is much better to paste text from a terminal into a post. For multi-line text, bracket the text with triple backquotes. The failed to create /home/the/.snap/auxdata/openjpeg/9.0.5 error could be a permission problem. There are several similar errors.

Is the your login name". Please provide the output for: ls -ld ~/.snap ~/.snap/auxdata ~/.snap/etc. All these directories should be owned, executable, and writable by the, so the beginning of each line should be: drwxr-xr-x.

so, do i need to check at this directory first?? /home/the/.snap/auxdata/openjpeg/9.0.5

Here is an example with correct permissions in linux (replace <user>with your user and group name):

ls -ld ~/.snap ~/.snap/auxdata ~/.snap/etc
drwxr-xr-x. 1 <user> <user> 100 Apr 26 20:57 /home/<user>/.snap/
drwxr-xr-x. 1 <user> <user> 166 Apr 26 20:50 /home/<user>/.snap/auxdata/
drwxr-xr-x. 1 <user> <user>  62 Apr 26 20:56 /home/<user>/.snap/etc/

You can find an explanation of this display, and leanr how to repair it if yours does not match) at Linux Command.org.