[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57095] curl not found when installed from Ubuntu snap

[David]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #57095 (project octave):

Thanks for the response. I was initially going to report the bug to
snapcraft.io but then figured this wasn't a problem with snapd, Snapcraft, or
the site so it didn't seem like the right place. Then I ran...


❯ snap info octave
name:      octave
summary:   Interactive programming environment for numerical computations
publisher: GNU Octave (octave-snap✓)
contact:   address@hidden


...and decided that octave.org was the right place. I debated whether to send
an email to that address@hidden address but thought the bug tracker was a
more logical place.

Point me to the right place and I'm happy to open an issue there and provide
further debug info as needed.

I saw "snap-confine" in strace output mentioned it in the bug report, along
with a couple wild guesses I tried to get around it.

I'm aware of the flatpack install but prefer not to have another package
manager. I'm hoping there's a way to fix the snap so that it doesn't sandbox
Octave. There are snaps that require the --classic flag during install and
that is probably how Octave needs to be packaged. I don't think it makes sense
for a tool like Octave to be sandboxed by default, just like I wouldn't want
Python to be sandboxed by default.

Thanks again.

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