Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)
Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica reports
that Ubuntu's snapd tool has been
ported to other Linux distributions.
"To install snap packages on non-Ubuntu distributions, Linux desktop
and server users will have to first install the newly cross-platform
snapd. This daemon verifies the integrity of snap packages, confines them
into their own restricted space, and acts as a launcher. Instructions for
creating snaps and installing snapd on a variety of distributions are
available at this website.
Snapd itself is installed as traditional packages on these other operating
systems. That means there's a snapd RPM package for Fedora, for
example. It's the same snapd code for every Linux distribution, just
packaged differently, and applications packaged as snaps should work on any
Linux distro running snapd without needing to be re-packaged.
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Snapd is available for Arch, Debian, and Fedora. It's also being tested by
CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, openSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL.