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General

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.

Installation

$ apt install snapd

Aftermath

To use the installed binaries from snap you have to add the installation path to the variable PATH either to .profile,.bashrc,.zshr,..

$ export PATH="/snap/bin:${PATH}"

Search for snaps

Usage

$ snap find searchstring

Sample

$ snap find mdless
Name    Version       Publisher      Notes  Summary
mdless  1.0.10+snap7  arub-islander  -      View Markdown comfortably in the terminal

Install package

$ snap install packagename

Offline package install

Download first the assert and snap file

$ snap download packagename

Install downloaded files manually

$ snap ack packagename.assert
$ snap install packagename.snap

List intsalled packges with snap

$ snap list
Name    Version       Rev   Tracking       Publisher      Notes
core18  20200427      1754  latest/stable  canonical✓     base
mdless  1.0.10+snap7  146   latest/stable  arub-islander  -
snapd   2.44.3        7264  latest/stable  canonical✓     snapd

List updates for packages

$ snap refresh --list

Upgrade snap packages

Snap packages are upgraded automatically For manual upgrade run snap refresh packagename

Usage

$ snap refresh packagename

Sample

$ snap refresh mdless
$ snap "mdless" has no updates available

Upgrade snap packages from different channel

ChannelDescription
stablelatest stable release of package
candidateRC candidta for next stable version
betaunstable version that has reached a certain milestone
edgedaily/nightly build of package under development
$ snap refresh packagename --channel=channelname

Downgrade snap packages

$ snap revert packagename

List changes made by snap on your system

$ snap changes

Remove snap package

$ snap remove packagename