A shiny new version of snapd, the service that powers Canonical’s ‘Snap’ packaging format, is now available.
If you’re busy using Snappy then much of what’s new will be of interest, including new commands to ‘buy’, ‘find –private’, ‘disable’ and ‘revert’.
An overview of the new commands:
snap find --private
lets you see snaps that have been shared with you privatelysnap buy
offers you a choice of payment backends for non-free snapssnap disable
allows you to disable specific snapssnap revert
allows you to revert a snap to its previous installed version- While
snap refresh
command now works with snaps installed in devmode
All useful for Snap addicts.
Other changes in Snapd 2.11 include
- Graceful handling of broken snaps using
snap try
command - Default confinement policy now includes access to /usr/bin/locale
- New ‘hardware-observe’ interface to let snaps read hardware info
Like what you hear? Snapd 2.11 is rolling out to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS users right now through Software Updater.
If you (somehow) don’t have it installed just open a new Terminal and run:
sudo apt install snapd
A growing selection of applications are being made available in the new packaging format, with LibreOffice 5.2, VLC and Telegram among them.