The same happens on Ubuntu 16.04. thresh@thresh-VirtualBox:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 4.13.0-36-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-033) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9)) #40~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 23:25:58 UTC 2018 thresh@thresh-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i snap ii libsnapd-glib1:amd64 1.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 GLib snapd library ii snapd 2.29.4.2 amd64 Daemon and tooling that enable snap packages ii snapd-login-service 1.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 Daemon to allow non-root access to snapd ii ubuntu-core-launcher 2.29.4.2 amd64 Transitional package for snapd thresh@thresh-VirtualBox:~$ snap version snap 2.32.5 snapd 2.32.5 series 16 ubuntu 16.04 kernel 4.13.0-36-generic thresh@thresh-VirtualBox:~$ snap info vlc --verbose name: vlc summary: The ultimate media player publisher: videolan contact: https://www.videolan.org/support/ license: unknown description: | VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. Completely open source and privacy-friendly, it plays every multimedia file and streams. It notably plays MKV, MP4, MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, BluRays, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources. It supports subtitles, closed captions and is translated in numerous languages. commands: - vlc notes: private: false confinement: strict devmode: false jailmode: false trymode: false enabled: true broken: false ignore-validation: false snap-id: RT9mcUhVsRYrDLG8qnvGiy26NKvv6Qkd tracking: beta refreshed: 2018-04-26T09:09:49+03:00 installed: 3.0.2-11-g7c1d21a (293) 192MB channels: stable: 3.0.1-4-g14a4897 (190) 189MB - candidate: 3.0.2 (277) 192MB - beta: 3.0.2-11-g7c1d21a (293) 192MB - edge: 4.0.0-dev-2536-g79afb97 (292) 197MB - thresh@thresh-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i appa ii apparmor 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.8 amd64 user-space parser utility for AppArmor ii libapparmor-perl 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.8 amd64 AppArmor library Perl bindings ii libapparmor1:amd64 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.8 amd64 changehat AppArmor library thresh@thresh-VirtualBox:~$
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