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gnome-software package

Support sideloading snap packages

Bug #1570182 reported by Robert Ancell
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Bug Description

You can't currently sideload a snap (i.e. install a .snap file).

This requires gnome-software to be subscribed to the .snap mime type and gnome-software to be able to extract the snap metadata.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

The method snappy uses for extracting metadata is:
$ unsquashfs -d (some temp dir) package.snap meta/snap.yaml meta/gui/icon.png meta/icon.png

This will pull out these metadata files to a temp directory and then they can be parsed by GNOME Software.

Will Cooke (willcooke)
tags: added: trello-import
Will Cooke (willcooke)
tags: removed: trello-import
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
description: updated
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Really would like a libunsquashfs to do this and make life simpler, but it doesn't seem to exist. It might be a good idea to wrap this into snapd-glib and potentially fix it later.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Forum topic: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/behaviour-for-installing-classic-devmode-and-unsigned-snaps-in-a-gui

Jonatã Bolzan Loss (jbopen)
tags: added: julyshakedown
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