Installing the proposed packages worked for me, albeit with an extra hoop of running a snap app as sudo first to get around the permission problem.
After the installing, I did: % sudo snap install hello % hello mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/espy/snap/hello’: Permission denied % sudo /snap/bin/hello Hello, world! % hello Hello world! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592696 Title: snaps don't work with encrypted home: failed to create user data directory. errmsg: Permission denied To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1592696/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs