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Snap seemed to me the easiest way to install MakeMKV.

I ended up with a program that starts but doesn't react to the presence of a DVD. Trying to navigate manually to the drive, the /media folder is not seen.

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I have heard about snap programs not seeing the system but I have imagined that could be by design, at least in some cases (a program might want to "see" just what it needs etc). But what's the purpose of a snap of MakeMKV that doesn't see the optical drive?

The Snapcraft page promotes the application in its normal use to "Backup your DVD and Bluray discs".

How is it supposed to work? I mean, is this expected behavior? Is there a problem with this specific snap? Could the flatpack version work better?

This is in Kubuntu 20.04.

cipricus
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    Snaps work in containers with a limited view of the base file-system (unless classic confinement is used), however you can snap connect [snap]:removable-media to enable access for snaps to common directories like /media, /mnt.. (by default they are limited to files located in $HOME for security reasons) – guiverc Jun 18 '21 at 08:44

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To fix Snap you have to connect the following Snap interfaces:

snap connect makemkv:optical-write
snap connect makemkv:removable-media

Nice way to fix it with 100% success is to use deb-package from PPA. Install it with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:heyarje/makemkv-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install makemkv-bin
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  • How can one make the tool have access to other locations, like /media, where other partitions are mounted (possibly containing source files and disk images)? – cipricus Jun 18 '21 at 08:53