Welcome to snapd
This is the code repository for snapd, the background service that manages
and maintains installed snaps.
Snaps are app packages for desktop, cloud and IoT that update automatically,
are easy to install, secure, cross-platform and dependency-free. They're being
used on millions of Linux systems every day.
Alongside its various service and management functions, snapd:
- provides the snap command that's used to install and remove snaps and
interact with the wider snap ecosystem - implements the confinement policies that isolate snaps from the base system
and from each other - governs the interfaces that allow snaps to access specific system resources
outside of their confinement
For general details, including
installation and Getting
started guides, head over to our
Snap documentation. If you're looking for
something to install, such as Spotify or
Visual Studio Code, take a look at the Snap
Store. And if you want to build your own snaps,
start with our Creating a snap
documentation.
Get involved
This is an open source project and we warmly welcome community
contributions, suggestions, and constructive feedback. If you're interested in
contributing, please take a look at our Code of Conduct
first.
- to report an issue, please file a bug
report on our Launchpad issue
tracker - for suggestions and constructive feedback, create a post on the Snapcraft
forum - to build snapd manually, or to get started with snapd development, see
HACKING.md
Get in touch
We're friendly! We have a community forum at
https://forum.snapcraft.io where we discuss
feature plans, development news, issues, updates and troubleshooting. You can
chat in realtime with the snapd team and our wider community on the
#snappy IRC channel on
freenode.
For news and updates, follow us on Twitter
and on Facebook.
