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Snap package: error on enabling IPFS command line tools

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Please describe what you were doing when this error happened. tried to enable file tools, resulting in this error. I have the server already running and documentation says that the desktop app can be used to manage the server already running on a system. Specifications

OS: linux
IPFS Desktop Version: 0.10.2
Electron Version: 7.1.2
Chrome Version: 78.0.3904.113

Error

Error: Unable to find pkexec or kdesudo.
    at test (/snap/ipfs-desktop/7/resources/app.asar/node_modules/sudo-prompt/index.js:205:18)
    at /snap/ipfs-desktop/7/resources/app.asar/node_modules/sudo-prompt/index.js:212:47
    at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (fs.js:165:21)

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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marathonecommented, Jan 21, 2020

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:05:45AM -0800, Marcin Rataj wrote:

@marathone ah, was the issue was with https://github.com/elopio/ipfs-snap, or something else? Is it ok to close this as fixed then?

Yes it was with that snap and it’s ok to close the issue as ‘fixed’. Thanks!

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lidelcommented, Jan 21, 2020

@marathone ah, was the issue was with https://github.com/elopio/ipfs-snap, or something else? Is it ok to close this as fixed then?

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