How-to guides

These guides step you through the actions you can perform when making and managing a snap.

Setup

You can install Snapcraft on any Linux distribution supporting snapd. After installation, choose from different back-end build providers.

• Set up Snapcraft

• Select a build provider

Crafting

The majority of the work you can do with Snapcraft is putting together a buildable snap, also known as crafting a snap. These tasks range from the essentials, such as choosing the target CPU architectures, to the advanced, such as configuring layouts.

• Configure package information

• Specify a base

• Select architectures

Integrations and extensions

Snapcraft accommodates different languages, build systems, and frameworks. These guides cover how to package software written in them.

• Integrations

• Extensions

Publishing

Once your snap is built, it’s ready to be distributed to the Snap Store or private stores. You can enact a versioning plan for your snap by managing its release cycle and monitoring its installation metrics.

• Register a snap

• Manage revisions and releases

• Get snap metrics

Debugging

Like all software, snaps can have build and dependency errors. Snapcraft and its companion tools have features for identifying and resolving such issues.

• Debug a snap

• Use the library linter

• Use the classic linter

• Debug with GDB

Change bases

With each major release of Snapcraft, snap builds gain new features and capabilities, and lose others. When migrating from one version and base to a new one, you might need to reconfigure your project as described by these guides.

Change bases