I just tried to install KStars via Snap on my Ubuntu 24.04.2 system. The system runs on a Lenovo Thinkpad P16 gen2 laptop with an nVidia RTX 3500 Ada Generation GPU.
The installation did not succeed. No KStars icon was populated into the “Show Apps” screen as it usually does with Snap-built apps.
I’ve never had any trouble installing KStars before. It just worked.
Last time it worked was before upgrading this beast from 22.04 to 24.04. This was a long struggle in itself due to GPU-related issues detailed here, but apparently not.
KStars appeared in the Snap Store but when I tried to install it, the installation did not succeed. No icon populated itself into the “Show Apps” screen.
When I tried to run it from the command line, I got
$ kstars
Content snap command-chain for /snap/kstars/142/gpu-2404/bin/gpu-2404-provider-wrapper not found: ensure slot is connected
Not sure what I can do to get this going. This may be a bug but I thought I’d run it by here first.