Can I run VLC 3.0 (Snap) as root? Ubuntu 16.04

[cliffsloane555]

I am having a lot of trouble opening up any files from any other hard drives in VLC.
Elsewhere, a fix was posted to allow running VLC as root (hexedit /usr/bin/vlc, replace geteuid with getppid), but vlc is not in /usr/bin anymore.
I tried installing vlc via command line but I get a "broken packages" error message (libgles1-mesa) which seems stubbornly beyond my repair efforts.
I tried installing deb packages of previous versions but get all manner of unresolvable dependency issues.

So, is it a do-able fix to figure out how to open this snap installation of VLC as root?

[mc4man]

run

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sudo snap remove vlc

When done re-install

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sudo snap install vlc --classic

[cliffsloane555]

Amazing! It worked!

I thought I had tried this before, but I must have done something wrong with removing the previous snap version. I followed your two steps and voila!

Thanks.