How to fix sudo: snap: command not found and snap store not working in Linux

While trying to install any snap from snap store you might get some error or the snaps are not loading.
When you try to install them from terminal you get this error

 sudo: snap: command not found  

cause of problem

This might be a problem caused by some broken packages or some missing packages. This usually occur after software update. So here’s how to fix this.

How to fix

Open terminal manually or by pressing Ctrl + Alt + t

Note: if this gives “sudo: command not found” error, then fix it using this command.

Step 1

Type and enter your superuser password

sudo apt-get update --fix-missing

  Hit:1 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports InRelease Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done  

If it gives dpkg error then use

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Step 2

After checking missing packages install snapd without this you can’t install snaps with ‘sudo snap’ .

sudo apt install snapd

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed   snapd  0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Need to get 21.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 95.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/main amd64 snapd amd64 2.49.2+21.04ubuntu1 [21.0 MB] Fetched 21.0 MB in 9s (2,459 kB/s)                                              Selecting previously unselected package snapd. (Reading database ... 330001 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../snapd_2.49.2+21.04ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking snapd (2.49.2+21.04ubuntu1) ... Setting up snapd (2.49.2+21.04ubuntu1) ... Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.apparmor.servi ce → /lib/systemd/system/snapd.apparmor.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.autoimport.ser vice → /lib/systemd/system/snapd.autoimport.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.core-fixup.ser vice → /lib/systemd/system/snapd.core-fixup.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.recovery-choos er-trigger.service → /lib/systemd/system/snapd.recovery-chooser-trigger.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.seeded.service  → /lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/cloud-final.service.wants/snapd.seeded.servi ce → /lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.service → /lib /systemd/system/snapd.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/snapd.snap-repair.timer  → /lib/systemd/system/snapd.snap-repair.timer. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/snapd.socket → /lib/sys temd/system/snapd.socket. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/final.target.wants/snapd.system-shutdown.ser vice → /lib/systemd/system/snapd.system-shutdown.service. snapd.failure.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.20-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for mailcap (3.68ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.5+21.04.20210119-0ubuntu1) ... 

Step 3

After installing snapd try to install the snap which was giving no snap error

sudo snap install telegram-desktop

 Setup snap "snapd" (12398) security profiles                                   /    2021-07-16T05:25:30+05:30 INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart... telegram-desktop 2.8.4-2-gc22d7ffcf from Telegram FZ-LLC (telegram.desktop) installed   

 Error fixed!

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