Open a new Terminal window and run: sudo apt-get update You can’t install snapd from the (old) Ubuntu Software Center. To install snapd, the service that powers the Snap packaging format, on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS you’ll need to turn to the command line. If in doubt just open and run Update Manager and install everything it suggests (unless you’ve specific reason not to). To install Snaps on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS you’ll need to install a couple of packages.īut before you skip ahead to do that make sure that you’re up-to-date with updates, bug fixes and security notices. Snap apps won’t appear in the Ubuntu Software Center, but anyone interested in what Snap packages are available can subscribe to this site, use the snap find command, or peruse the online Snap store (of sorts) at Enable Snap Apps on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Trusty users can find, install, list and manage Snap packages using the simple Snap commands we walked you though previously. “The work involved in getting snapd onto 14.04 will also help enable snapd on non-systemd distros, so testing a range of snaps would be very useful.” Mark Shuttleworth follows up with a small tease about the fruits of this work: If you are running a 14.04 system we encourage you to give it a try and report any issues. “The team are pleased to announce that, after extensive testing in proposed, snapd is officially available in the Trusty Tahr updates archive. ‘Officially Available in the Trusty Archives’Īnnouncing the arrival on the Snapcraft mailing list, Canonical’s Jamie Bennett writes:

While most people reading this post will be doing so from a more recent version of Ubuntu than Trusty, the arrival of Snapd in the Trusty archives means even more folks can fool around with the new software deployment and package management system.Īnd if any Trusty users are stuck for what to try, we can recommend some Snap apps that are worth trying. Yup, you read that right: Ubuntu 14.04, aka the Trusty Tahr, aka the LTS before the most recent LTS.

Snappy, Canonical’s new app distribution framework (and then some) is now available on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

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