Questions tagged [snapcraft]

Snapcraft is a build and packaging tool developed by Canonical which allows packaging the software in an entity called snap.

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snapd randomly takes up all the available memory

I'm using snaps in ubuntu 20.04. Every so often, even several times a day all of a sudden my computer freezes as the memory usage foes to 100% with all available memory taken by snapd. I tried killing the snapd process but it wouldn't make any…
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Simple hello world snap is not working after upgrade of ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04

Recently, I have started working on snapping. I have learnt snapping on Ubuntu 18.04 with simple hello-gnu. After that i have moved to ubuntu 20.04. I have faced many issue. So i decided to simply run hello-gnu snap again on ubuntu 20.04. But it's…
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Is there a way to build snap or a linux app without using snapcraft?

I'm using flutter dev and I wanted to enable linux support to many applications and followed this tutorial but the thing is Everytime I try to run snapcraft launches a VM and installs flutter again from the snap this uses lot of my disk space,time…
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How do I make Snap Store fonts on Arch Linux display as text and not as empty rectangles?

I recently set up a Parallels VM on my Mac with Arch Linux as the OS. I followed these directions to set up Arch (except I didn't install most of the fonts until after everything else was done). I then installed the Snapcraft Snap Store. However,…
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notepad-plus-plus snap does not start on Ubuntu

I installed notepad-plus-plus on Ubuntu machine. It was working fine. With no evident reason it stopped to work. Icon disappeared from application list. When I launch shell script /snap/notepad-plus-plus/current/bin/notepad-plus-plus I got error…
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IntelliJ IDEA not able to run as described

I followed installation of IntelliJ IDEA as described in the following session. Install IntelliJ IDEA as a snap package on Linux sudo snap install intellij-idea-community --classic And it says ... When the snap is installed, you can launch it…
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How to add a custom PPA to snapcraft

Base problem/goal: I want to be able to use some shared libraries, that should be fetched before cmake step(plugin) from a custom PPA. snapcraft.yaml: name: mraa-blink-example version: 'Latest' summary: mraa for snapcraft description: | Blink…
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How can I launch an external program from my snap application outside of the snap context?

In vala I am launching the elementary OS Settings like this: var appinfo = AppInfo.create_from_commandline ("switchboard", null, AppInfoCreateFlags.SUPPORTS_URIS); appinfo.launch_uris (list, null); But this fails because I assume the process is…
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Deploy python venv as snap

We have a python(3) venv rest api. In the same venv we have also installed and configured the application server uwsgi the api is running on. And we are looking for a clean way to deploy it. Until now we are deploying with is a simple script that…
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How to build SNAP package from Qt project

It's my first time then I build a program into the SNAP package. I want to make my program more accessible. The build is going without problems. But libqtnetwor5 not see a couple needed libraries. Right here below you can see description of all logs…
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Install Go Programming Language on Ubuntu core (snappy)

I tried to install Go language on Ubuntu Core (snappy) for creating a web server. How to do it? I have problem downloading go-lang archive because there is no 'wget' in ubuntu core. Any solutions?
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Snap throws error when trying to run 'code' (VSCode) or any other snap package

Suddenly Snap has started throwing error when ever i try to run any app such as VSCode, Spotify and Bitwarden that is installed via snap, this was not the case until yesterday and the only notable change i have made to my system is that i have…
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Cannot connect to docker daemon in intellij in ubuntu with snap

In Intellij Ultimate docker is not detected automatically. I choose "create new", but i get the message, that i cannot connect to docker daemon at unix /var/run/docker.sock i started docker with: sudo snap docker start The file docker.sock exists. i…
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Which is the most stable way to install flutter in GNU/Linux?

I recently decided to switch from W10 to GNU/Linux, and yes still a Linux noob. So which is the most recommended way to install flutter on Linux?, a way which won't get me troubles in the future when I try to update flutter. Right now I only now…
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Where do I place a docker config.json file when docker is installed as a snap on Ubuntu?

I want to use a custom docker config.json file like this to reassign the detach keystrokes: { "detachKeys": "ctrl-q,ctrl-q" } In a "normal" docker world, i.e. one where docker is installed via apt or similar and not snap, I could put this file…
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