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Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on from the this-is-the-future dept.

An anonymous reader shares an Ars Technica report: Ubuntu's "snappy" new way of packaging applications is no longer exclusive to Ubuntu. Canonical today is announcing that snapd, the tool that allows snap packages to be installed on Ubuntu, has been ported to other Linux distributions including Debian, Arch, Fedora, and Gentoo among others. 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. Snaps can exist on the same system as either deb or RPM packages. Snaps aren't the only new package manager for Linux distributions that aims to simplify installation of applications. There's also AppImage and OrbitalApps.

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  1. lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hay, finally a universal app for Linux!

    1. Re:lol by Thud457 · · Score: 3, Funny

      #include obXKCD 927

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  2. Re:And hello problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Curses you package installer!!! No really, how do I install Curses with this?

  3. "snapd"? by idontgno · · Score: 2, Funny

    We all know this technology won't really be mature until "snap management" is fully subsumed and integrated into systemd, where it belongs.

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