System requirements

To run Snapcraft, a system requires the following minimum hardware and installed software. These requirements apply to local hosts as well as VMs and container hosts.

Minimum hardware requirements

  • AMD64, ARM64, ARMv7-M, RISC-V 64-bit, PowerPC 64-bit little-endian, or S390x processor

  • 2GB RAM

  • 10GB available storage space

  • Internet access for remote software sources and the Snap Store

Platform requirements

Platform

Version

Software requirements

GNU/Linux

Popular distributions that ship with systemd and are compatible with snapd

systemd

snapd 2.44.3 or higher

Windows

Windows 10 version 2004 or higher

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)

macOS

macOS Sonoma or higher

Homebrew