Cristhian Martinez Ochoa

Hi Edgar. Thanks a lot for the follow up! It works fine, I tested it using SNAP and PIP packages, both successful. I have to mention that I stopped using Duplicity from SNAP, now I'm using PIP package instead. I'm aware Duplicity is having a lot of issues with Snap, you guys have put a lot of effort the last weeks in the Gitlab repo solving these issues. I've been using Duplicity and Duply for more than 7 years without any major problems, in fact it can be considered very stable. Using SNAP package...

Hi Edgar. Thanks a lot for the follow up! It works fine, I tested it using SNAP and PIP packages, both successful. I have to mention that I stopped using Duplicity from SNAP, now I'm using PIP package instead. * I'm aware Duplicity is having a lot of issues with Snap, you guys have put a lot of effort the last weeks in the Gitlab repo solving these issues. * I've been using Duplicity and Duply for more than 7 years without any major problems, in fact it can be considered very stable. * Using SNAP...

just to make sure. i assume this happens regardless if snap/distro/ppa versions of duplicity are used right? You are right, it's not related to the package type.

The thing is simple: A lot of people run Ubuntu servers with a user different than "root", actually the default user in AWS EC2 is "ubuntu", not "root". All of these users running Ubuntu 18.04 or older will get this error. And they are a lot of users, considering that LTS versions are supported for a lot of time, in fact, 14.04 is still officially supported, that's why they are LTS. Read: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle In any of these Ubuntu versions just run "sudo duplicity --version" and...

The thing is simple: A lot of people run Ubuntu servers with a user different than "root", actually the default user in AWS EC2 is "ubuntu", not "root". All of these users running Ubuntu 18.04 or older will get this error. And they are a lot of users, considering that LTS versions are supported for a lot of time, in fact, 14.04 is still officially supported, that's why they are LTS. Read: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle * In any of these Ubuntu versions just run "sudo duplicity --version"...

Version get function

It should be enough! According to the official docs: https://snapcraft.io/docs/system-snap-directory This folder is defined and recognized as "where the files and folders from installed snap packages appear on your system.".

Duplicity with Snap