Linux snap: Error: Failed to create dir: mkdir /var/lib/snapd/void/quickstart: permission denied

[deragon]

New user trying the quickstart demo on Linux, got the following:

$ sudo snap install hugo --classic
$ cd /tmp  # Just an example; any directory out of the home directory would do the trick.
$ hugo new site quickstart
Error: Failed to create dir: mkdir /var/lib/snapd/void/quickstart: permission denied

It does work when I run it from my home directory. But it should work outside of it too. According to the documentation:

Hugo-as-a-snap can write only inside the user’s $HOME directory—and
gvfs-mounted directories owned by the user—because of Snaps’ confinement
and security model. More information is also available in this related
GitHub issue. Use sudo snap install hugo --classic to disable the default
security model if you want hugo to be able to have write access in other
paths besides the user’s $HOME directory.

Either the documentation needs to be changed or better, that the snap be fixed to work as expected. All my development directories are outside my home directory, on a different partition. It should be allowed to run hugo from there.

[FelicianoTech]

Based on this forum thread I don't think running --classic for strictly confined snaps is fully supported by Snapcraft.

My vote is then we stop suggesting this and remove it from the docs.

[FelicianoTech]

Open a docs PR for this here -> gohugoio/hugoDocs#715

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[sitthykun]

$ hugo new site quickstart
Error: Failed to create dir: mkdir /var/lib/snapd/void/quickstart: permission denied

it is hugo v0.91.2+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2021-12-23T20:50:11Z.
what should I do?

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