Microsoft PowerShell is now available as a Snap: https://betanews.com/2018/07/20/microsoft-powershell-core-linux-snap/ -- Rich
What's a snap? On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Richard Klein wrote:
Microsoft PowerShell is now available as a Snap: https://betanews.com/2018/07/20/microsoft-powershell-core-linux-snap/
Snaps (https://snapcraft.io/) are an application-packaging technology created by Canonical designed to be developer-friendly by including dependencies instead of breaking them up into smaller packages like deb and rpm formats do. Personally I don't think think Snappy is very well designed, but as long as they lower the barrier of entry for application distribution on desktop Linux then it's a net positive. On Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 10:01 Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
What's a snap?
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Richard Klein wrote:
Microsoft PowerShell is now available as a Snap: https://betanews.com/2018/07/20/microsoft-powershell-core-linux-snap/
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I have not tried snaps yet, but believe that one of the other characteristics of them are if you chose to delete a snap, all the dependencies that came with it also go away. On Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 10:01:49 AM EDT, Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU> wrote: What's a snap? On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Richard Klein wrote:
Microsoft PowerShell is now available as a Snap: https://betanews.com/2018/07/20/microsoft-powershell-core-linux-snap/
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Snaps tend to install more cleanly due to including all of the dependencies independently of the host OS. Snaps have a few drawbacks though, one being that they're very Ubuntu-centric. To my knowledge, the apparmor profiles which are using for sandboxing are currently not upstreamed, so app developers like the powershell devs recommend installing in "classic mode" which bypasses this benefit. Snaps are also added to your $PATH, which can be a problem if a snap decides to use the same name as an application that was installed via package manager for example. Also from what I remember, snaps are still heavily reliant on the Ubuntu app store. While it is possible to install an arbitrary .snap file, you can't add different repos. Flatpak doesn't seem to have these limitations, being much more distro-agnostic and having a well-defined sandboxing mechanism. I recommend checking out Flathub if you want to give flatpaks a try. -Josh On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 08:52 The Hammer via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I have not tried snaps yet, but believe that one of the other characteristics of them are if you chose to delete a snap, all the dependencies that came with it also go away.
On Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 10:01:49 AM EDT, Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU> wrote:
What's a snap?
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:57:12AM -0400, Richard Klein wrote:
Microsoft PowerShell is now available as a Snap: https://betanews.com/2018/07/20/microsoft-powershell-core-linux-snap/
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