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VLC 3.0, installed via snap on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS can't access files in /tmp directory. If I move the files into the home directory they work just fine. Tried the following but still got the same error

sudo snap remove vlc
sudo snap install vlc --classic

I'm trying to use the Send to VLC addon from Opera to stream directly in VLC. the addon seems to create and point to .m3u8 files in the /tmp directory. It worked with VLC 2.2.2, with 3.0 i get "Cannot Open MRL..."

Indeed, snap application cannot open /tmp. No idea on how to fix (or if it is fixable).

So I'm guessing I'll have to wait for a non snap packaged version or compile it myself to get this to work. O

With VLC 3.0 installed via snap on Ubuntu 16.04.3 I can't find files and directories in /mnt , I've all my media here

Snap only allows VLC to open files from $HOME and /media - by design.

So how do we install VLC 3.0.0 without snap and without compiling from source?

You install it from Ubuntu development repositories, or you wait for the next Ubuntu release.

I find it just unbelievable that between the combined brains-trust of launchpad, VLC and Ubuntu that a deb version of VLC 3.0 is not available, especially now the stable version has been released. The later RC versions of 3.0 which did exist are no longer available...

Anyway the work-around to play videos from anywhere on your system is:
sudo snap install vlc --devmode

With a 16.04 system you may have to enable snap first, just google it.

sudo snap install vlc --devmode

Doesn't work. Had already tried.

It is ridiculous that there's no straightforward way to install 3.0 without snap. Mast and Stable daily ppas are both on 4.0 now and snap or compile are the only options, and snap has all sorts of issues that cripple VLC.

I am also unable to open MRLs for Jack audio streams. I think I had it working for a bit with 4.0 installed from the master daily ppa, but then it updated today and other things stopped working. I guess I'll have to wait for an actual release instead of using the half functional snap version.

Well i'm using 17.10 on 2 machines and it works fine on both. Have you updated your repositories? Or, what exactly does the terminal tell you is wrong?

I find it just unbelievable that between the combined brains-trust of launchpad, VLC and Ubuntu that a deb version of VLC 3.0 is not available, especially now the stable version has been released.

Of course a .deb of VLC 3.0 exists. It is in Debian Unstable already.