problem with Flutter SDK location after install with ubuntu snap

Question

I installed flutter SDK using ubuntu "snap" by running:

$ sudo snap install flutter --classic

and when i want to add PATH of flutter sdk to android studio i have a seroius problem !!

recently i searched flutter sdk paths and i saw some guys said , if you installed it with snap, this is sdk path:

/home/user_name/snap/flutter/common/flutter

then I checked this path and i saw in common directory i have a zip file and there is no flutter directory , i tried to unzip that file but it gives error and cannot unzip it.

please help me , please ....

Burial

Initializing Flutter Downloading https://storage.googleapis.com/flutter_infra/releases/stable/linux/flutter_linux_1.22.4-stable.tar.xz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 193 100 193 0 0 286 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 285 tar: This does not look like a tar archive xz: (stdin): File format not recognized tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Flutter initialization failed Could not find working copy of Flutter – Burial

when i run flutter doctor command, it gives me this error – Burial

Answer 1

This problem happened to me, i solved it by uninstalling the flutter by snap and then following the installation on the website by downloading the .tar file

sudo snap remove flutter

After uninstalling the flutter with the snap follow the manual installation step of the link

https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/linux

Marjie

Answer 2

Once you install flutter using snapd, make sure you run flutter sdk-path to have your flutter path initialized and the process completes successfully. Otherwise, if the process is terminated without completion, your OS won't recognize flutter.

Willodeanwilloughby

You are not able to run the flutter sdk-path command because it starts to download the flutter SDK from storage.googleapis.com/flutter_infra/releases/stable/linux URI instead. – Robinetta

Answer 3

I had the same problem, it was solved by restarting the computer. Simply.

Castile

Restarting the computer is not solved the problem for Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. – Robinetta

Answer 4

1. Install the last version of Flutter manually, For more details, checkout the official docs

2. Delete all files located in this path: /home/user_name/snap/flutter/common/flutter

3. Extract all files from the downloaded .tar.xz to the flutter folder

Phoebe

Answer 5

1. Extract the latest .tar file for flutter

2. delete all the folders in home/snap/flutter/common/flutter/...

3. Extract the downloaded .tar inside the current directory

Hypno

Answer 6

It is easy to miss. But when installing flutter with snap, it might let you know what's wrong warning.

$ snap install flutter --classic
Warning: /var/lib/snapd/snap/bin was not found in your $PATH. If you've not restarted your session
         since you installed snapd, try doing that. Please see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/9469
         for more details.

After I added /var/lib/snapd/snap/bin to PATH, flutter works fine.

export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin

Tallow

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Answer 7

Using Flutter with superuser it worked for me. e.g sudo flutter sdk-path sudo flutter doctor

Quintal