Ubuntu: Can't install software from the Snap store

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Oh man, I can't believe you reinstalled for something that was fixable! I wish I'd seen this thread last month... :unamused:

Alas, there's two similarly named groups: adm and admin. You should have added yourself to the admin group and then logged out. adm is for internal use only! Do not add yourself to that group!

(Yes, I know it's messed up that there's two similarly named groups on the same system. I used to get confused.)

Confirm what I said by running groups under your reinstalled system. You should see an instance of admin, and probably not an instance of adm.

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In Ubuntu, we don't have admin but sudo.

OP's account was the only one (as stated) so he would already be in the sudo group (that's default); it was not necessary to add again to sudo group. From what I read and understood, there was no issue but only a misunderstanding about how sudo works. Comments #14 and #18 have explained clearly.

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On freshly rebuilded UM 20.04 caused by motherboard + CPU upgrade :

┌─[olek@lenovo_apbook02u]─[~]
└──╼ $ls -lt /var/log/installer
total 892
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    430 Apr  8 17:35 telemetry
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root   root 443898 Apr  8 17:35 initial-status.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     64 Apr  8 17:35 media-info
-rw------- 1 syslog adm  314179 Apr  8 17:35 syslog
-rw------- 1 root   root   7143 Apr  8 17:34 debug
-rw------- 1 root   root 125568 Apr  8 17:27 partman
-rw------- 1 root   root     20 Apr  8 17:24 version
-rw------- 1 root   root   1602 Apr  8 17:24 casper.log
┌─[olek@lenovo_apbook02u]─[~]
└──╼ $groups
olek adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin lxd sambashare
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Wow! Seriously?

Well, I guess there must be something wrong with my installation.

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Maybe, maybe not. I show the same as olek on my 20.04.2 system for what it's worth.