cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/discord: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: connection refused

user15124326

27 Aug 2022, 10:57 UTC

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I want to install discord via snap (Linux package format), but i get the following error:

cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/discord: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: connection refused

Don't know why ...

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slayernominee

30 Aug 2022, 10:57 UTC

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Maybe you don't have the snapd service running

To start it onetimes do:

sudo systemctl start snapd

To enable that it always start with your system do:

sudo systemctl enable snapd

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