Ubuntu software error "Error opening directory "/usr/share/appdata": No such file or directory"

I'm new to Ubuntu 20.04. When I try to install or deinstall using Ubuntu Software I get this message:

Sorry, something went wrong: Error opening directory "/usr/share/appdata": No such file or directory.

How can fix this?

Thanks in advance.

3 Answers

Ran into the same issue today, ending the process and re-opening it resolved it for me.

Steps to reproduce what I did:

• Open System Monitor and search for snap-store
• Select the snap-store process and hit End Process
• Re-open Ubuntu Software

On the technical side of things this looks like a minor permissions issue, not much to worry about.

I couldn't kill the snap-store process so I just restarted my computer to clear the error.

Get the pid and kill it:

$ ps -aux | grep snap-store
user1 1591 0.0 0.8 1338376 138668 ? Sl Feb01 3:04 /snap/snap-store/467/usr/bin/snap-store --gapplication-service
$ kill -9 1591

Reopen ubuntu software