Snaps from Snapcraft.io

Snaps are app packages for desktop, cloud and IoT that are easy to install, secure, cross‐platform and dependency‐free. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, the app store for Linux with an audience of millions.

• Snap

  A snap is a bundle of an app with its dependencies that works without modification across Linux distributions.

• Snapd

  Snapd is the background service that manages and maintains your snaps, automatically.

• Snap Store

  The Snap Store provides a place to upload snaps, and for users to browse and install the software they want.

• Snapcraft

  Snapcraft is the command and the framework used to build and publish snaps.

As we added the meta-snapd layer, automatically the kernel is configured to support snapd. And with snapd added to the image

Installing a snap

If you found your snap at https://snapcraft.io/ like hello-world it could be as easy as:

snap install hello-world