I doubt reinstalling will make much difference. Your comments indicate that you do have CMake installed as a snap. That at least helps narrow things down.
To run the CMake GUI from the command line, you use the following command:
cmake-gui
Please try that and report what you see here. I suspect you are one of the people seeing the problem that a few others have reported, so I’m quite interested in what the above shows for you.
After you’ve done that, I suggest you remove the CMake snap and install CMake via a different method. First, to remove CMake do the following:
sudo snap remove cmake
Then you can install CMake again from one of the following methods:
- Download the official CMake package as a tarball and unpack it somewhere. You will need to update your
PATHenvironment variable to include thebindirectory of wherever you unpack it to. This should work on just about any Linux distribution. You can find the packages here: https://cmake.org/download/ - I don’t know if the Kitware apt repository would be suitable for your distribution or not. I guess you could try it, but perhaps @kyle.edwards can offer a more informed view on this. You can find details about it here: https://apt.kitware.com
BTW @kyle.edwards @robert.maynard it might be good to add a link or some comments about the APT repo on the https://cmake.org/download page to make it more discoverable. Update: I see now that it is there further down the page in the Alternative Binary Releases section, but since it follows after the Previous Release section, I suspect many like myself will rarely scroll down that far to see it.