fitojb / snaptastic

A snap installer for Elementary OS

Snaptastic

A snap manager for Elementary OS

Install, update, remove, and view information about your installed snaps.

Installation

First you will need to install elementary SDK

sudo apt install elementary-sdk

Dependencies

These dependencies must be present before building

• valac
• gtk+-3.0
• granite
• libsnapd-glib-dev

You can install these on a Ubuntu-based system by executing this command:

sudo apt install valac libgtk-3-dev libgranite-dev libsnapd-glib-dev

Building

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

Installing

sudo ninja install

Use snaps from browser

Run the following command to use snaps from browsers sudo update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications

Recompile the schema after installation

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

FAQ

Snaptastic wont handle snap URLS

On Firefox you sometimes have to set the Application manually.

• Go to about:preferences#general
• Under applications search for snap and set the dropdown to 'Use Snaptastic'