installation snap vlc / stable fails with: ERROR open /snap/vlc/7/meta/gui/vlc.desktop: no such file or directory

Bug #1732359 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
VLC media player
New
Undecided
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snapd (Fedora)
New
Undecided
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snapd (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Test Case:
1. Run the following command in a terminal
  $ snap install vlc

Expected result
vlc is installed

Actual result:
it fails with
erreur : cannot perform the following tasks:
- Rendre disponible le paquet Snap "vlc" (7) pour le système (open /snap/vlc/7/meta/gui/vlc.desktop: no such file or directory)

Problem on errors.u.c
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/15ca783f6a7903d6454e2849660253225d14d924

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: snapd 2.28.5+17.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Nov 15 08:17:25 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-03 (1533 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130902)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: snapd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

It looks like the snap ships a symlink in meta/gui/vlc.desktop that points to a non-exiting file.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in snapd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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