At first I was leery of Flatpak. I've been using Ubuntu for 15 years or more, and Snap's had left a bad taste in my mouth. But, I'm in the middle of switching from using macOS as my primary environment, plus considering shifting my girlfriend from Windows to Linux/Ubuntu. Having ...
You might have already used some of them on Linux — but might not really know they are. Flatpak, Snap andAppImagethey are ‘universal packaging systems’. In an earlier article in the Linux Jargon Buster, you have learned about thepackage manager in Linux. So I won’t bother you with p...
There are so many Linux distributions. Building applications for all of them can be a time consuming and difficult task. Even though many package converters exist, they all have limited functionality and compatibility issues. To overcome this problem, an application package format namedSnapwas introdu...
The lead developer behind the project isCanonical, the same company that pilots the Ubuntu project. Ubuntu had native snap support from version 16.04 LTS with more and more distros supporting it out of the box or via a simple setup these days. If you use Arch or Debian or openSUSE you’ll...
In light of such challenges, a universal way of installing packages comes highly recommended in order to save time and avoid errors arising from compatibility issues. Canonical was the first to implement such an idea in the form of snap packages.Snapsare cross-distribution, containerized, and dep...