Snapcraft is a build and packaging tool developed by Canonical which allows packaging the software in an entity called snap.
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How do I ship VLC into my Operating System Dependent VLCJ Application?
I am creating a Java application that uses VLCJ. However, because it uses VLC, it means that I need to find a way to download VLC for the user so that VLCJ can detect the binaries and find the files necessary. Unfortunately, VLC has operating…

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seemingly unsolvable "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix" (7 solutions tried and failed)
after re-installing docker sudo snap install docker on
francesco@francesco-yoga720:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: …

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Snapcraft build fails cmake part step
My computer:
snap 2.48.2
snapd 2.48.2
series 16
ubuntu 20.04
kernel 5.8.0-41-generic
Here is my yml:
name: someproject
version: '3.3.1.0'
base: core20
summary: "someproject: asdfasdf"
description: |
someproject asdfasdf.
grade:…

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I uploaded snap on snapcraft now how can i delete this?
Hello Guys I had created a useless app to test distributions of the app on different platforms.
now I want to remove that from the snap store how can I?
i published it by uding snapcraft upload --release=stable updatelearning_xxx_amd64.snap
How to…

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Why do do I get GL_FRAMEBUFFER_INCOMPLETE_ATTACHMENT using JAVAFX versions greater than 12.02
I have built a LINUX based UBUNTU snap app using BASE20 (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) as a target OS, and it is in distribution.
That App works perfectly well using OpenJDK 11 through to 15.0.1 on OpenJFX 11 and 12. However if I move to a more recent version…

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How to make a keyword for terminal
So basically, I have a python program (called: robot) that I want to run from anywhere (Any directory) in the terminal simply by typing its name and I want this to do the same thing that python robot.py would do.
How can I achieve this? Do I have to…

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snapscraft snap.yaml for java apps using swing ui on ubuntu
I have a basic java app using java.awt Swing UI and I want to create a snap for it so when it's installed there is a launcher available and my UI Launches. I use gradle and the jar task to create a jar which works fine.
Naturally I have in a class…

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Cannot enable experimental in snap docker 19.03
My docker is installed with snap.
I added the following line
$ sudo cat /root/.docker/config.json
{
"experimental": "enabled"
}
$ cat ~/.docker/config.json
{
"experimental": "enabled"
}
then sudo snap restart docker
then run the…

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Can't create a snap with Snapcraft
I'm trying to create a snap for Alacritty on ubuntu 20.04 x64. Creating an executable with cargo build --release works fine. Creating a snap using snapcraft gives error message:
note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find Scrt1.o: No such file or directory
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How to specify which channel to download Flutter infrastructure from?
I use Ubuntu 20.04.
I downloaded Flutter from the Snap store (Stable channel).
When I initialized Flutter, it started to download infrastructure from the beta channel of its GitHub repository.
So, my question is:
Is it normal or something is…

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Problem with the OPC UA Client while trying to create an Ubuntu snap
I've created a working app by using the OPC UA package for node. I ran it on a Linux VM (Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic) and want to put it into a snap for easier reuse on other systems. I followed the tutorial in their docs on how to create a nodejs snap. But…

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How to run and debug a snap application with GDB?
We have an open-source C++/Qt application which we recently also started to package and distribute as a snap (snapcraft). It's been a bumpy ride. Among numerous other issues some users have reported crashes (SIGSEGV) when running the application…

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Cannot perform subprocess.run inside a snap
In my snap (coded in python), I try to perform some sudo commands but it didn’t work. Here is an example of a command that didn’t work:
command = "sudo netmgr -i country_code set:" + countryCode
subprocess.run([command])
And when I run the snap in…

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Unicode Characters wont work in snapcraft
When I try to use Unicode characters, for example € my app only prints the escape sequence. i.e. \u20AC. How do I fix this?

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How to snap a python package with plugin packages?
I'd like to bundle the Python package kedro which provides a command line interface (kedro). In addition I'd like to put the Python package kedro-docker into the snap as well. This second package extends the first package's command line interface…

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