Flatpak and Snap packages have gained significant traction from Linux users, providing a modern alternative to traditional binary packages and AppImages. Their popularity comes from user-friendly features, seamless integration with software centers, and effortless updates, eliminating concerns about dependencies during…
Snap is a package format developed by Canonical that allows cross-platform and dependency-free installation of applications for desktop, IoT, and cloud environments. You can install snaps (snap apps) from the Snap Store. If you install any snap application, then it…
In Ubuntu 22.04 and later Firefox is a Snap package, Ubuntu removed the .deb package for Firefox from it’s repository. If you try to install the deb package via apt, Then it only install the Snap version. In this tutorial…
The snap related system files are stored in the /var/lib/snapd folder and it keeps more than one version of the packages you have installed on your system. It is by design and it will take lot of your system disk…
A snap package comes with an application and all its dependencies into one compressed file using the SquashFS format with the extension .snap and decompressed during the installation. Snap is a self-contained application running in a sandbox and mounted by…
Snappy is a package management system for snap packages and the tool that manages installed snaps called snapd. It is written by Go and c and developed by Canonical. Snap packages are update automatically, cross-platform and dependency free. Currently it supports more than 20 Linux distributions like Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, elementary OS, Fedora, Kali Linux, Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux, Pop!_OS, Raspbian, RHEL, Solus and Zorin OS. Snap Store is a graphical user interface of snap based desktop application. Using this you can discover, install and manage snap application on your system.
Some times when you try to install the snap packages via your terminal app, you will get error: snap "packagename" has "install-snap" change in progress error. This is because of the incomplete or broken snap installation. This will happen during…
In Ubuntu you can create a list of installed packages very easily. There are lots of methods available. We will see one by one in this tutorial. This is helpful in some situations where you want to track or uninstall…