![]() ![]() Instead, as you may be aware, the general aim of Snappy is for better speed, stability, and security, in circumstances where a minimal Ubuntu Core system is sufficient and appropriate. However, Raspberry Pi support does not appear to be the main point of Snappy Ubuntu Core. (You'd replace that with whatever you're looking for, of course.)Īs for Raspberry Pi, those have ARM processors, which you're right are not the same as the usual 32-bit and 64-bit Intel and AMD processors most of us use on our traditional PCs. This finds Snappy packages with search-term in their names. To search for Snappy Ubuntu Core apps from within a Snappy Ubuntu Core system, use: snappy search search-term deb package, the best way to install software on Snappy Ubuntu Core is with specially built snappy packages. However, just as the best way to install most software on regular Ubuntu systems is with a. Like in just about any OS, you could manually install programs on Snappy Ubuntu Core provided you have or can obtain all the libraries (and any other dependencies) they need. deb packages, Ubuntu packages created for regular Ubuntu systems will not work-the relationship between regular Ubuntu systems and Snappy Ubuntu Core when it comes to package files is, in effect, the same as the relationship between any two distributions that use totally different package managers. ).īecause Snappy Ubuntu Core doesn't use. to specify packages for updating (put their names in place of. ![]() To summarize a couple examples from the Snappy Tour, to install the Docker application you would run: sudo snappy install dockerĪnd to install updates, you run sudo snappy update-versions (which corresponds to sudo apt-get update on a normal Ubuntu system), snappy versions to see what's newly available, and sudo snappy update. deb packages do not work to install and upgrade applications on a Snappy Ubuntu Core system. My questions are formulated to the best of my understanding of how applications work and are installed in Ubuntu, but please edit them to make more sensible if you get what I mean to ask.Īpt-get and other utilities for working with traditional. If the standard approach does not work, how do I get applications, where do I search for what applications are available for snappy, and how do I install them. Snappy Core is available for Raspberry Pi, for instance, which is a different (mobile) processor, if I install snappy on that, will regular desktop apps still work on Pi? Is that the point of snappy? ![]() Will regular ubuntu applications work if I install snappy (the same thing that works on my normal ubuntu install using apt-get or by downloading a deb package), or does someone need to do something special to make an app work in snappy? What is the snappy approach to applications? The homepage describes some of it's merits, but as a user, how will I get the apps? Do I still sudo apt-get install XXXX? Or something else? I understand that it is some sort of a minimal working ubuntu, and the spirit of this question is not what is "in it", rather what it is and how it works. I ask here because I still remain confused. Before everyone rushes to mark this as a duplicate, I have indeed read the other threads here and here, googled this, and visited the snappy homepage here searching to clear my confusion, and I couldn't. ![]()
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