In Mint 20 the snap application is discouraged so I decided to try building lxd from source code. I made it through 'make deps' and 'make' following instructions from the https://linuxcontainers.org/ website. Compiling put lxd installed under a '~/go/bin/' subdirectory in my home directory as per instructions. The 'Makefile' did not include a 'make install' option so everything is in that home subd.

The problem is; invoking /home/bob/go/bin/lxd looks for a socket at /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket. Since there was no system install of lxd, there is no socket.

Did I miss something? I have re-read the instructions.

Thanks for any enlightenment you can provide.
Best regards,
Bob G.

What instructions? Your link does not show any.
What did you download (link), how did you compile?

First, I think I solved the problem. Thinking that lxc and lxd were separate functions I already had a version of lxc installed from the mint repository. I have removed that from my system and that seems to have resolved the problem.

To answer your questions; The specific instructions for compiling lxd from source are found on this page linked from the LinuxContainers.org website:

https://github.com/lxc/lxd/#installing-lxd-from-source

You will need to scroll down the page to the part that describes installing and compiling lxd. There are two main options; building the latest version, and building a release. I followed the instructions for building the latest version.

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