snap packages: some useful links

[vasa1]

It would be nice to have a chatty thread about snaps and what they are and how to get them on all flavors of 16.04 in case someone thinks they're tied up to one specific flavor.

Here's a useful link: Get started with snaps on the desktop. It includes a command-line approach as well.

[grahammechanical]

Thank you for the link. I have been looking for information like that.

The important command is "snap find" Keep in mind that very few of the snaps are suitable for a desktop. Many of those listed are for snappy Ubuntu core. Things will get better as app developers see advantages to converting their apps to snaps.

Regards.

[grahammechanical]

Yesterday I installed ubuntu-clock-app which is a snap. I could not find an icon for it in the Dash. I loaded it with a command and something failed. So, I used a command to remove the snap. Today I found this:

http://blog.labix.org/2016/04/20/snappy-changes

I used a couple of commands as an experiment in diagnostics

graham@sdb7-Dev:~$ sudo snap changes 1
Status Spawn Ready Summary
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:06:52Z Download snap "ubuntu-core" from channel "stable"
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:06:59Z Mount snap "ubuntu-core"
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:07:00Z Copy snap "ubuntu-core" data
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:07:02Z Setup snap "ubuntu-core" security profiles
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:07:04Z Make snap "ubuntu-core" available to the system
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:09:15Z Download snap "ubuntu-clock-app" from channel "stable"
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:09:23Z Mount snap "ubuntu-clock-app"
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:09:24Z Copy snap "ubuntu-clock-app" data
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:09:26Z Setup snap "ubuntu-clock-app" security profiles
Done 2016-04-21T04:05:41Z 2016-04-21T04:09:27Z Make snap "ubuntu-clock-app" available to the system

graham@sdb7-Dev:~$ sudo snap changes 2
Status Spawn Ready Summary
Done 2016-04-21T04:18:22Z 2016-04-21T04:18:22Z Make snap "ubuntu-clock-app" unavailable to the system
Done 2016-04-21T04:18:22Z 2016-04-21T04:18:23Z Remove security profile for snap "ubuntu-clock-app"
Done 2016-04-21T04:18:22Z 2016-04-21T04:18:23Z Remove data for snap "ubuntu-clock-app"
Done 2016-04-21T04:18:22Z 2016-04-21T04:18:27Z Remove snap "ubuntu-clock-app" from the system
Done 2016-04-21T04:18:22Z 2016-04-21T04:18:27Z Discard interface connections for snap "ubuntu-clock-app"

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Remove snap "ubuntu-clock-app" from the system

2016-04-21T05:18:26+01:00 INFO Waiting for snap-ubuntu\x2dclock\x2dapp-5.mount to stop.

Things are starting to get interesting.

Regards

[vasa1]

Can you or anyone else post about a simple snap package (?) that will run on any 16.04 flavor?

And thanks for the link, even from a window shopper's POV.

[grahammechanical]

They should run. The snaps are contained and as we can see the installation process installs ubuntu-core. But over the next few days I will test this out.

Regards

[grahammechanical]

Firefox to be snap packaged. I got this from OMGubuntu

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurerelea...?utm=omgubuntu

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/f...u-snap-package

Regards

[DuckHook]

Firefox to be snap packaged...

...hmmm. Will spin up a VM to see how all this new stuff works. Yum!

[vasa1]

The Mozilla people weren't too clear about the schedule for snap packages. They've got a lot on their plate and an enthusiastic PR team

[ventrical]

Here is more links for reading.

'Snaps for Classic Ubuntu'

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/...lassic-ubuntu/


Fully functional snappy on xenial.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83395.html

[QDR06VV9]

Here is more links for reading.

'Snaps for Classic Ubuntu'

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/...lassic-ubuntu/


Fully functional snappy on xenial.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83395.html

Thanks gooood read

This just sounds very interesting to me.
When i get a little free time i am going to give it go.

More Features Added

Ubuntu 16.04 also includes support for ZFS-on-Linux, a combination volume manager and filesystem that enables efficient snapshots, copy-on-write cloning, continuous integrity checking against data corruption, automatic filesystem repair, and data compression.

Another storage improvement in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is support for CephFS. This a distributed filesystem that provides an ideal platform for large-scale enterprise storage for cluster computing on open technology.

Plus I was reading last nite that if you plugged another drive in it just gets mounted and ready to use on the fly, unless I misunderstood,
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/...-ubuntu-16-04/