No more Flatpak (by default) in Ubuntu Flavors

Posted Feb 23, 2023 7:49 UTC (Thu) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
In reply to: No more Flatpak (by default) in Ubuntu Flavors by WolfWings
Parent article: No more Flatpak (by default) in Ubuntu Flavors

> Nobody but Ubuntu includes snaps

That is false. Debian has snaps. Not by default of course.

No more Flatpak (by default) in Ubuntu Flavors

Posted Feb 23, 2023 9:57 UTC (Thu) by jkingweb (subscriber, #113039) [Link]

Last time I installed it Manjaro included both Flatpak and Snap by default.

No more Flatpak (by default) in Ubuntu Flavors

Posted Feb 23, 2023 13:19 UTC (Thu) by atnot (subscriber, #124910) [Link]

This is technically true in the narrow sense that you can, with some work, get snapd to run some applications on many distros. However, this is for example only possible by turning off headline features like secure confinement, as it relies heavily on AppArmor functionality which is in practice not usually going to be available on non-ubuntu systems. It is also annoying enough to package that many distros have dropped it.

So while yes, it can run, there is clearly no sincere effort from Canonical to make it a first class citizen on non-ubuntu distributions.

No more Flatpak (by default) in Ubuntu Flavors

Posted Feb 23, 2023 13:19 UTC (Thu) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240) [Link]

Even Fedora has snaps available. And you can use snaps on RHEL/CentOS if you install the software from EPEL.