Zsh and Snaps
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In case I forget again, by default when snaps are installed it doesn’t populate in the zsh shell. To enable this add the following to /etc/zsh/zprofile
emulate sh -c 'source /etc/profile.d/apps-bin-path.sh'
In case you don’t have apps-bin-path.sh in /etc/profile.d/, then here’s the file as of this date:
# shellcheck shell=sh
# Expand $PATH to include the directory where snappy applications go.
snap_bin_path="/snap/bin"
if [ -n "${PATH##*${snap_bin_path}}" -a -n "${PATH##*${snap_bin_path}:*}" ]; then
export PATH=$PATH:${snap_bin_path}
fi
# Ensure base distro defaults xdg path are set if nothing filed up some
# defaults yet.
if [ -z "$XDG_DATA_DIRS" ]; then
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share"
fi
# Desktop files (used by desktop environments within both X11 and Wayland) are
# looked for in XDG_DATA_DIRS; make sure it includes the relevant directory for
# snappy applications' desktop files.
snap_xdg_path="/var/lib/snapd/desktop"
if [ -n "${XDG_DATA_DIRS##*${snap_xdg_path}}" -a -n "${XDG_DATA_DIRS##*${snap_xdg_path}:*}" ]; then
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="${XDG_DATA_DIRS}:${snap_xdg_path}"
fi
Source: hackel on Ask Ubuntu.