'multipass' does not exist or is not available on the desired channel 'latest/beta'
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Abandoned after 135 days of inactivity. The report describes a snapcraft channel resolution error when installing multipass, though manual installation works. No fix or discussion was provided.
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Hi
While working to reproduce an issue where snapcraft tries to use multipass but fails because of a lack of KVM extensions, I tried running snapcraft in a VM without KVM extensions.
Steps to reproduce:
1. multipass launch (this is on a host running focal + 5.3 kernel + multipass snap 1.0.2 rev 1597)
2. multipass shell; snap install --classic snapcraft (=> snapcraft 3.8 revision 3440)
ubuntu@tireless-panther:~/webFace/s$ snapcraft
Support for 'multipass' needs to be set up. Would you like to do that it now? [y/N]: y
Failed to install or refresh a snap: 'multipass' does not exist or is not available on the desired channel 'latest/beta'. Use `snap info multipass` to get a list of channels the snap is available on.
However, this works:
sudo snap install --classic --channel latest/beta multipass
Best,
- LM
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned after 135 days of inactivity. The report describes a snapcraft channel resolution error when installing multipass, though manual installation works. No fix or discussion was provided. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without comments or resolution. The multipass channel mismatch was abandoned, likely resolved by upstream snap channel updates. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without comments or resolution. The reporter found a manual workaround, suggesting the channel issue was resolved upstream or the report was abandoned. |
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