Unable to enable Snap in Discover

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Been trying to enable Snap in Discover. I try to click on the check box to enable and nothing happens. I finally found this guide: How to Install Snap on Fedora Linux - LinuxCapable I now have Snap Store AKA AppCenter installed, so I guess I could either use the command line or that program now. It would be nice, but not really required if I can pair it down to dnf5 & Discover. Still nothing happens when clicking the box.

sudo dnf install plasma-discover-backend-snap
returns:
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: plasma-discover-backend-snap
You can try to add to command line:
–skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages

sudo dnf install plasma-discover-snap-backend
gives essentially the same results

All things being roughly equal my order of preference is rpm, flatpak, snap anyway.

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Now got it working. I am not sure what got it to work. It may be that you have to set it as default and then switch back, perhaps even with a restart in between or something equally silly. It could have been there all along (at least after installing and configuring snap per the LinuxCapable article). For some reason, at least in Fedora, the snap version is not always explicitly listed in the search results. That may have been what threw me off.