One of my big things with snap is how it locks the snap into the home directory. I get why they do that but it would be nice to override[1]. In my case I want to play audio files outside of my home directory but VLC doesn’t have access. And VLC now only updates the snaps and not it’s repos so you have to use the snaps.[2]
> If you wish to install the traditional deb package, it is available as usual via APT, with all security and critical bug fixes. However, there will be no major VLC version updates until the next Ubuntu release.
This is in line with Ubuntu (and Debian) repo policies. You do not get major software updates in between distribution updates unless you use a third party repository. You do get bug fixes and security fixes, and/or can track unstable if you need the bleeding edge.
Is this possible? Softlinks is just an indication of where to look for the file, but if the process can't see the file, a softlinks won't help.
A hard link should be able to see the file, but they need to be in the same file system, and I don't know much about ubuntu's default partition scheme to say if it's doable for most of the users.
> If you wish to install the traditional deb package, it is available as usual via APT, with all security and critical bug fixes. However, there will be no major VLC version updates until the next Ubuntu release.
This is in line with Ubuntu (and Debian) repo policies. You do not get major software updates in between distribution updates unless you use a third party repository. You do get bug fixes and security fixes, and/or can track unstable if you need the bleeding edge.