call for testing: snaps in Trusty

[Leo Arias]

Hello!

With snaps you can have a stable base system with frequent updates for
every program, without the risk of breaking your machine. And now if
you are a Trusty user, you can just start taking advantage of all
this. If you are a developer, you have to prepare only one release and
it will just work in all the supported Ubuntu releases. We would like
now to invite the community to test it, explore weird paths, try to
break it.

How to get started?

If you are already running Trusty, you will just have to install snapd:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install snapd

Reboot your system after that in case you had a kernel update pending,
and to get the paths for the new snap binaries set up.

If you are running a different Ubuntu release, you can Install Ubuntu
in a virtual machine [1]. Just make sure that you install the
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso.

Once you have Trusty with snapd ready, try a few commands:

$ snap list
$ sudo snap install hello-world
$ hello-world
$ snap find something

Keep searching for snaps until you find one that's interesting.
Install it, try it, and let us know how it goes.

If you find something wrong, please report a bug with the trusty tag.
If you are new to the Ubuntu community or get lost on the way, come
and join us in Rocket Chat.

And after a good session of testing, sit down, relax, and get
ohmygiraffe. With love from popey:

$ sudo snap install ohmygiraffe $ ohmygiraffe

[1] http://elopio.net/blog/install-ubuntu-in-vm/
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+filebug
[3] https://rocket.ubuntu.com/channel/community
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