Solve error: cannot communicate with server dial unix /run/snapd.socket

If after installing the SNAPD on Ubuntu, Kali, or other Linux you will get an error:

solve error: cannot communicate with server: Post "http://localhost/v2/snaps/": dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory

Then this is because, after installation, the Daemon of SNAP is have not started yet and needs to start and enable manually by the user.

Therefore to resolve such an issue perform the below steps after installing snapd.

First, check the status of SNAPD service

systemctl status snapd.service

If you get the following output then the service is not yet started.

● snapd.service - Snap Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/snapd.service; disabled; vendor p>
Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● snapd.socket

Start SNAPD service

systemctl start snapd

systemctl status snapd

Output
● snapd.service - Snap Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/snapd.service; disabled; vendor p>
Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-11-26 06:33:26 EST; 1s ago
TriggeredBy: ● snapd.socket
Main PID: 2338 (snapd)
Tasks: 8 (limit: 4623)
Memory: 22.8M
CGroup: /system.slice/snapd.service
└─2338 /usr/lib/snapd/snapd

 

In case still the error hasn’t solved yet, then run the below command. However, it will remove any existing installed application via snap.

sudo apt purge snapd
sudo apt install snapd