"Snap" question

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:54:28 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 11.12.2020, 09:44 -0500 schrieb Robert Heller:
> > 
> > OK, this will not do. I have used xv as my "standard" image viewer
> > application
> > and have used it to view images all over the various file systems
> > mounted on
> > my system. I will have to find a "real" (eg .deb) install of xv or
> > else I'll
> > have to find the source and build it that way. 
> 
> luckily rebuilding a snap (if you know where the snapcraft.yaml source
> file is [1]) is a trivial task of a few minutes ... i made a --classic
> version [2] of the snap in the store (classic snaps are running
> completely without confinement, while they are hard o get into the
> store (security review etc), they are easy to build):
> 
> https://people.canonical.com/~ogra/snaps/xv_3.10a+dg20180618_amd64.snap
> 
> download it, install it with:
> 
> sudo snap install --dangerous --classic xv_3.10a+dg20180618_amd64.snap
> 
> that should get you a fully functional xv ... 
> 
> note though that this is completely illegal, xv upsream denies any
> distribution of modified (including self built) binaries of the app via
> its license ... (which is likely also the reason it was removed from
> debian (and thus from ubuntu, as it only came from there as a sync))
> 
> indeed snaps from locally installed .snap files do not get updated etc
> but i doubt xv gets updated a lot anyway :)

I found a site with step-by-step instructions for building xv from source as a
normal executable, complete with the RPMFusion and Jumbo patches. 

> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 
> [1] https://github.com/cmatsuoka/xv/tree/xv
> [2] https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/TGHHpCvKGP/
> 

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