Playing Around With Ubuntu's Snaps, On Fedora

[pal666]

You are wrong: snap does let you declare required frameworks. I'm not that familiar with Flatpak but from reading its website it seems to me that snap does everything that Flatpak does, and probably more.

lol, it was not hard to fool you

[Leenooks]

Ok. I got snapcraft installed, but the only command that I have is snapcraft and not snap. I did have to install python-yaml, python-jsonschema, python-magic, and python-docopt in order to try out snapcraft. I tried "snapcraft find *" and got an output:

[grayson@htpc ~]$ snapcraft find *
Usage:
snapcraft [options] [--enable-geoip --no-parallel-build]
snapcraft [options] init
snapcraft [options] pull [<part> ...] [--enable-geoip]
snapcraft [options] build [<part> ...] [--no-parallel-build]
snapcraft [options] stage [<part> ...]
snapcraft [options] prime [<part> ...]
snapcraft [options] strip [<part> ...]
snapcraft [options] clean [<part> ...] [--step <step>]
snapcraft [options] snap [<directory> --output <snap-file>]
snapcraft [options] cleanbuild
snapcraft [options] login
snapcraft [options] logout
snapcraft [options] upload <snap-file>
snapcraft [options] list-plugins
snapcraft [options] help (topics | <plugin> | <topic>) [--devel]
snapcraft (-h | --help)
snapcraft --version

Unfortunately, there is no snap command.

yaourt snapd

is the command.
Works like a charm!

[pal666]

• Linux x86_64 (deb) - 229MB
• Linux x86_64 (rpm) - 229MB
• LibreOffice AppImage: 246 MB
• Mac OS X x86_64 - 201MB
• Windows x86_64 - 238 MB
• Linux x86_64 (snap) - 287MB

Put down your pitchforks people! Sometimes I feel like people will rage against anything canonical does...

well, canonical made you forget to list flatpak size, it's a solid reason for hate

[pal666]

Via SNAP:

wget http://people.canonical.com/~bjoern/snappy/libreoffice_5.2.0.0.beta2_amd64.snap
sudo snap install libreoffice_5.2.0.0.beta2_amd64.snap

Speaks for itself.

what really speaks for itself is that you missed step of disabling selinux

If Fedora thinks flatpak is the future of linux packaging, just leave them to their playground.

flatpak ---> BetaMax
Snap ---> VHS

yeah, systemd was betamax and upstart was vhs

[GraysonPeddie]

yaourt snapd

is the command.
Works like a charm!

Thanks. Will try them out.

Update after a while later: Okay. Got snapd installed. It looks like there will be more snap packages shown up as time goes by. There are even Linux kernels that are designed for Snappy Core in mind. There's even owncloud as well.

Oh, and remove that stupid JavaScript that raises and shrinks the text box. As I hold down the backspace, the text box raises and shrinks like crazy. Seriously! GET RID OF IT!!!

[CanalGuada]

SHA is a checksum not a signature.

Sure, it is.

But snap daemon probably can't guess by itself what the package signature has to be, because that package doesn't come from a known repository or store, in this LibreOffice beta case, better than this digest that user has to download then check with given sha512sum command.

[computerquip]

Canonical needs to stop. I don't understand how people reply so contently to their press releases.
https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/0...da-department/

[CanalGuada]

Canonical needs to stop. I don't understand how people reply so contently to their press releases.

If you want to distribute your snaps, your choices are 1) publish it through the Canonical store, entirely under Canonical’s control, 2) upload it as a file and tell people to use the CLI to install it, or 3) try to figure out how to reconfigure the snap client to use a different server by reading the source code, then write your own server end from scratch, and tell your users to do that. Hmm.

Indeed.