It's Official: You Can Now Install Snap Packages on Fedora Linux Distributions

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Canonical’s David Callé is happy to announce today the availability of the Snappy technologies on the Fedora Linux operating system series, allowing Fedora users to install Snap packages.

Just like Flatpak or AppImage, Snaps are cross-distro packages that allow users of any Linux-based operating system to install any app that’s packaged as a Snap using Snapcraft. These sandboxing technologies make Linux application distribution a breeze.

The Snap format was designed by Canonical for Ubuntu Linux, but the company says on the project’s website that it also runs on Debian GNU/Linux, Arch Linux, Gentoo Linux, openSUSE, OpenWRT, OpenEmbedded, Yocto, and Fedora Linux operating systems.

If until today installing Snaps on Fedora Linux wasn’t something “officially” supported, according to Canonical’s latest press announcement, now they are a… (read more)

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