How to install Snap on Fedora

Posted by Carles Loriente on November 17, 2024 · 1 min read

Installing Snap on Fedora: A secure and scalable way to embed applications on Linux devices

What is Snap? From Wikipedia, Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system.

Open your terminal and type:


sudo dnf install snapd

The command will download and install the snapd daemon.

Now, log out and log in from your system or restart the computer.

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To enable classic snap support, create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:

Type in your terminal:


sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap

For more information and troubleshooting, visit the official documentation

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