You cannot call SNAP Desktop just by typing snap in your terminal
Stupid question but did you tried just typing snap in your search bar? If it is installed, you have the 2 launchers below here
I know it’s not Ubuntu but kind of (Linux mint is based on Ubuntu)
In my case, SNAP is installed in /home/qg/snap and /home/qg/.snap (hidden directory). The laucher itself is located at /home/qg/snap/SNAP Desktop
Dear @mlzoffoli,
you ran into a problem caused by a conflict of the same name for two different software. The snap package, which was already installed, is a default installation which comes with your ubuntu distribution, find some information about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager) if you do
sudo apt-get install snap
you do not install esa’s SNAP but Canonical’s snaps, this software would not appear if you search for it. I extracted the software installation and configuration for esa’s SNAP from an other manual which I have written for some other workflows, find it here: SNAP_installation.html (1.0 MB)
. By following these steps closely, I think you will have esa’s SNAP installed and configured properly really quick. Good Luck
Hi again
Here is what I have done as the most simple installation:
Get the file by using:
wget http://step.esa.int/downloads/6.0/installers/esa-snap_sentinel_unix_6_0.sh
It took some time to download:
esa-snap_sentinel_unix_6_0.sh 100%[=================================================>] 516.60M 3.03MB/s in 3m 7s
Then make it executable:
chmod +x esa-snap_sentinel_unix_6_0.sh
Then install it:
sudo ./esa-snap_sentinel_unix_6_0.sh
After installation starts it asks some questions:
Unpacking JRE …
Preparing JRE …
Starting Installer …
This will install ESA SNAP on your computer.
OK [o, Enter], Cancel [c]
Delete SNAP's configuration data and user settings?
The installer detected SNAP user data directories from a previous
installation. These directories contain system file used by the application
and also stored graphs, RGB profiles or other auxiliary data. The data
stored in these directories might not be compatible with this new SNAP
version anymore.
Shall the installer try to remove these directories?
Yes, try deleting all SNAP user data [1], Delete only SNAP-internal configuration data (recommended). [2, Enter]
Where should ESA SNAP be installed?
[/usr/local/snap]
Which components should be installed?
*: SNAP [*1]
1: Sentinel-1 Toolbox [*2]
2: Sentinel-2 Toolbox [*3]
3: Sentinel-3 Toolbox [*4]
4: Radarsat-2 Toolbox [*5]
(To show the description of a component, please enter one of *1, *2, *3, *4, *5)
Please enter a comma-separated list of the selected values or [Enter] for the default selection:
[1,2,3,4]
Did you see all those steps when installing?
/Kenan
Thank you so much to everyone! I’ve been able to install it! now the problem is to install plugins. I got the following errors:
Networking problem in file:/home/zoffoli-m/Téléchargements/sen2coral-kit-1.0.0.nbm
Check your proxy settings or try again later. The server may be unavailable at the moment. You may also want to make sure that your firewall is not blocking network traffic. Your cache may be out of date. Please click Check for Updates to refresh content.
the same if I check for updates… any idea?
thanks again!
Laura
That is an error reported by NetBeans which is the platform that SNAP was built on.
My best guess is that the proxy settings are not set. They are often required if you work in large organization.
Go To: Tools -> Options -> WWW and check the proxy settings.
Sometimes the system settings are not enough and you have to fill them yourself.
/Kenan
thanks a lot, Kenan. I’ll try that
best,
Laura
Hello dear @KenanV , @thho and @marpet, and other users
I am using SNAP during long time but after installing ubuntu18 instead of ubuntu16, ı need to install snap6 again and ı have this installation problem first time
while getting the setup from internet ı need the code wget and then ı write chmod +x esa-snap_sentinel_unix_6_0.sh and then sudo ./esa-snap_sentinel_unix_6_0.sh but ı had some problems on installation like shown below terminal pictures
first my installation wasn’t completed completelly (stop on %99) and later ı had the problem like 2. picture
How can ı fix this problem ? Can you help me please ?
Thank you so much
I never had that error, but have you tried installing the module:
sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module
Otherwise i would suggest to install it as a user and not using sudo. At least for me it made life easier 
As @KenanV suggests, installing without sudo is better. See
Regarding the missing library. I haven’t seen this problem before. Maybe it seems Ubuntu changed something between the versions.
We will check this. Thanks for the report.
ı have already installed it without sudo before but now ı understood what the problem is,
I think, the problem caused by ubuntu18. Because when ı reinstall ubuntu16 again now, ı don’t have any problem about installing snap or opening snap
Hi All,
Later I modified the file permissions in .snap/system after which I was able to start SNAP but with an error as shown below
I tried everything in the thread except the same in ubuntu 16. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks!
This seems to happen only in some situations. So it is probably specific to the system. So far we haven’t found out was this causes.
Maybe someone else can help us out?
Hello Everyone,
I had a similar issue after installing SNAP 7.0 (downloaded on 2019/Nov/19) using the above procedure described by KenanV.
The messages when starting snap in the terminal was:
"Gtk-Message: 13:17:49.557:Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
But after installing the module with:
sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module
And starting snap again, it all worked fine.
I use Ubuntu 18.04.2. (Linux 5.0.0-32-generic with x86_64 GNU/Linux OS)
he all. I’m tring to install current SNAP (7.0) on ubuntu.
I have 2 problems:
a. there is the same problem about canberra. I tried both the systems:
with both systems ubuntu (20.04) has been unable to load the canberra-gtk module
I have also the problem that the updates download abrupt the uptading download
What can I do?
this issue has been resolved!
Grate that it is solved. Can you share the solution with us? Maybe helpful for others.
very simple!
I have not seen what SugarSpec has written before!
simply with the command line I have typed:
sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module
and all has gone right.
STEP forum is very useful
“libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate” this error msg persist , how did u solve it?
I have not this error, even if I have another issue (the libgfortran3 library) that I hope to solve next monday (it’s another topic)
You should ask your question in a new thread. This thread dates from 2018 and the problem was different. libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate is a usually a linux distro configuration problem, so you may get better results from a distro-specific forum.
