Discover was not working so i removed plasma-discover-backend-snap. Will there be issues?

[LauRoman]

Hello, i am running Kubuntu 24.04 LTS
A couple of days ago Discover stopped launching. So i did some diging around and a suggestion that many people said would work is removing the package

plasma-discover-backend-snap

Discover now launches but I have a few questions.
1. How does this affect updating apps through Discover?
2. Will updates to snap packages stop appearing in Discover?
3. Are ther vital updates i should be worried about being messed up?
I might have more questions after someone guides me to some proper answers.
Thank you.

[claydoh]

1. Snap updates won't be seen in Discover, nor will any Snap packages be available there to be installed or removed, either.
2. Yes, see #1 -- however, they still will be updated automatically in the background via the snapd daemon. One can still install, remove, and update them via the command line if desired.
3. Nope.

Discover is just a graphical front end for a number of different software package management tools/delivery systems, or whatever you want to call them. It isn't required to use it, though it does make things easier and more convenient for most.

[LauRoman]

That was my understanding. I was looking for some confirmation that i have not missed something important, thank you.
I wanted to add that removing both that package and discover, rebooting, and reinstalling them did not fix my issue. At this moment, until i can find a test guide, keeping plasma-discover-backend-snap out is the only thing that seems to help.
I have aditional questions for anyone that could provide some insight...
1. is there a way to verify that the package i removed was soley responsible for the issues?
2. how can i test that other snap manipulation programs that particular package interacted with was not at fault or somehing?

[claydoh]

removing both that package and discover, rebooting, and reinstalling them did not fix my issue.

This almost never ever does anything useful in Linux.

1. Run Discover from the terminal (the command is plasma-discover. DON'T use sudo!). Look for errors. Then remove the snap backend and do the same. Note any error messages. It is impossible to say without information, especially for something that doesn't seem common, i.e: many recent reports and discussion on this and the purported workaround.
2. The only "snap manipulation" is still being done by snap itself. It is all modular. Discover (the GUI) uses its snap backend component to tell snap to do something/show information/etc. If using snap on the command line works correctly, then something is broken between it and Discover. If the command line isn't working, then the issue is in snap itself. Finding the point of failure is the only way to know.
3. Make sure your OS is fully up to date, Use the command line,m since Discover is the problem area.
   sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
   Note any errors and warnings.
   reboot, just to be safe
   try running Discover from the command line as I mentioned, both with the snap backend installed and without
   Try some snap commands and look for errors.