[05:35] <debodhi> https://i.imgur.com/O7JaFFJ.png   Is the snap store only available for ubuntu?
[08:05] <ogra_> debodhi, it surely is ... 
[08:05] <ogra_> (given it is the default Sw to install/remove packages in ubuntu)
[16:10] <debodhi> ogra_: ok, the question was it *only* available for ubuntu, as I'm unable to install it, as can be seen in the screenshot, it keeps saying to try other channels, but none work, etc.
[16:11] <debodhi> it feels like you answered the question without the word only in it..... although perhaps I'm just hoping....
[16:23] <ogra_> debodhi, it should work on any system that supports snaps 
[16:24] <ogra_> not sure why you do not get the full channel list though, is your snapd outdated (do you have the latest snapd snap on your system) ?
[16:25] <ogra_> (checking the metadata of my installed snap-store, it requires at least snapd 2.41)
[16:25] <debodhi> 2.60.4
[16:26] <ogra_> that should be fine then ... 
[16:26] <ogra_> does "snap info snap-store" list 8 channels for it ? 
[16:26] <ogra_> (4x latest in different variations, 4x preview)
[16:27] <debodhi> no, as shown on screenshot, it say "error: no info for snap-store" 
[16:27] <debodhi> errr no snap found for snap store
[16:28] <debodhi> error: no snap found for "snap-store"
[16:28] <ogra_> right ... weird ... 
[16:30] <ogra_> there isnt really any technical reason i could imagine that might prevent you from seeing all channels ... snaps are 100% distro independent so as long as snapd is supported you should have access to all snaps in the store 
[16:31] <ogra_> (and to all channels of these snaps)
[16:31] <ogra_> do you have any "transparent" proxy that could intercept https calls to the store ? 
[16:32] <debodhi> I'm able to find and install snaps from command line...  I tried a few https://paste.debian.net/1306121/
[16:34] <debodhi> I did "snap find games" and picked 3 to try, the rest of that stuff was dependencies for them
[16:36] <debodhi> (so no, I don't think I have any proxy)
[16:45] <ogra_> hmm, you dont have the snapd snap ... try "snap install snapd" (might need a reboot on non-ubuntu systems to make it start from the snap version)
[16:48] <debodhi> it appeared to restart itself after install, but I'm rebooting anyway, thanks
[16:49] <ogra_> 👍
[16:53] <debodhi> It didn't change the behavior in regards to snap-store tho.
[16:53] <ogra_> bah
[16:54] <ogra_> but "snap version" does tell you about 2.61.x now i hope ?
[16:55] <debodhi> No, still says 2.60.4
[16:55] <ogra_> oh
[16:55] <debodhi> but thats what it says in the list anyway
[16:56] <ogra_> it shouldnt ... 
[16:56] <ogra_> $ snap info snapd | grep latest/stable
[16:56] <ogra_> tracking:     latest/stable
[16:56] <ogra_>   latest/stable:    2.61.1                  2024-01-04 (20671) 42MB -
[16:56] <debodhi> https://paste.debian.net/1306123/
[16:57] <debodhi> https://paste.debian.net/1306124/
[16:57]  * ogra_ is baffled
[16:58] <ogra_> not sure but you dont really seem to access the snapcraft.io store properly ... see https://snapcraft.io/snapd ... 
[16:58] <ogra_> (top right)
[16:59] <ogra_> not sure how you could even remotely get a 2.60 version when you run snap install snapd ... there is only 2.61.x available 
[17:00] <debodhi> i386 arch
[17:00] <ogra_> OH !
[17:00] <ogra_> your kernel says -686 ... 
[17:00] <ogra_> right, i386 support was dropped in 2018 ... so all you get will be really old stuff then
[17:01] <ogra_> that indeed solves the mystery 🙂
[17:02] <debodhi> https://i.imgur.com/15XdENB.png on the site you sent shows 2023
[17:03] <debodhi> Oh you mean for snap-store
[17:03] <debodhi> it doesn't list i386 at all under arch, so that explains something
[17:04] <ogra_> right, snapd will still be built for i386 ... but no newer snaps 
[17:05] <ogra_> so all you can get is anything that has been packaged against 18.04 ("base: core18" in "snap info --verbose <snapname>") ... but snap-store is definitely packaged against core22
[17:07] <debodhi> ah ok.  yeah trying to install that as a test, it gives an error message that makes sense.  snap-store didn't give such an error message.  
[17:07] <debodhi> error: snap "core22" is not available on stable for this architecture (i386) but exists on other
[17:07] <debodhi>        architectures (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x).