Package it as a Snap

[heidiwenger]

For an easy installation clicking in Software in Ubuntu, which is the first Linux distro for many new users now coming to Linux.

Thanks a million if this could be possible!

[hongquan]

I will look into it. It may take sometimes for me to learn how to package as snap. Unfortunately my health is not good these days so I cannot spend time for it yet.

[heidiwenger]

I will look into it. It may take sometimes for me to learn how to package as snap. Unfortunately my health is not good these days so I cannot spend time for it yet.

Thank you so much for being so kind, but health absolutely first, yes.

Here's a "Zero to snap in (much less than actually) 60 minutes" tutorial video by "Mr. Snap himself" Alan Pope (former Canonical) if it's of any help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikoUByA5BLU

Also there's one from his blog: https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/lets-go-snapping/

[heidiwenger]

Oh i just remembered, there is also this spot for snaps (requests). People there can also help (or even do the snap for you). I put CoBang there as a new request: https://forum.snapcraft.io/c/snap-requests/21

[vrement]

I will look into it. It may take sometimes for me to learn how to package as snap. Unfortunately my health is not good these days so I cannot spend time for it yet.

Hopefully feeling better. I see there is the milestone of CoBang 1.0 released, hoping there'd be a snap package now for simple one click install on Ubuntu which is so popular always.

[hongquan]

Thanks, will find some times to do.

[hongquan]

@vrement Unfortunately, Snap core24 base doesn't contain enough dependencies to build:

• It doesn't have gstreamer1.0-gtk4.
• Tried building gst-plugins-rs from source but core24 contains older Cargo than requirements.

Maybe we need to wait for Canonical to release core26.

[vrement]

@vrement Unfortunately, Snap core24 base doesn't contain enough dependencies to build:

* It doesn't have [`gstreamer1.0-gtk4`](https://packages.ubuntu.com/oracular/gstreamer1.0-gtk4).

* Tried building [`gst-plugins-rs`](https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-plugins-rs) from source but `core24` contains older Cargo than requirements.

Maybe we need to wait for Canonical to release core26.

Yes, maybe that would be for the best. Snapcrafters can also be communicated (with possible requests on this) here: https://forum.snapcraft.io/c/snapcraft/13

[hongquan]

Asked in Snapcraft forum, but Oliver Grawert suggested to backport the missing packages to Ubuntu 24.04. It is a very difficult task when it is related to Rust.

[vrement]

Asked in Snapcraft forum, but Oliver Grawert suggested to backport the missing packages to Ubuntu 24.04. It is a very difficult task when it is related to Rust.

I sure hope it is doable, though 👍