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If you are running this on a different CPU architecture, naturally the architecture in the directory and snap file names listed below must be modified. The examples were tested on amd64 architecture with Intel graphics.

Installing the snap packages works on different versions of Ubuntu and even different Linux distributions.

Some of the snapcraft commands may run on other configurations, but for the “Ubuntu App Platform Snap” section it is a hard requirement because the version of Qt – upstream 5.6 long term support version – and other libraries used to build the snap need to match the versions in the ubuntu-app-platform snap. So if you haven’t, we recommend reading the documentation on snapcraft.io and the snap-codelabs tutorials.Īll the commands that are listed below are executed on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine with the stable-phone-overlay PPA enabled.

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We assume that before reading this blog post, you have acquired knowledge about how to use Snapcraft. However, before showing these two approaches that you can apply to your own QML code, we demonstrate how to create a snap from deb packages in the Ubuntu archive so that you can get started right away even before you write any code. Below we will explain the two approaches to building a snap for Qt-based software: a snap that is self-contained and includes Qt, and one that uses the platform snap, and we show the advantages of each approach. The platform snap provides an (optional) approach for the software provider, and can save disk space in some cases. Here, we show how to create self-contained snap packages for Qt-based applications, and we show an additional approach where some of the app dependencies are provided by a separate snap: the Ubuntu app platform snap.

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When you install a snap, you know that you don’t need to install additional dependencies (besides the automatically-installed core snap that provides the basic operating system layer), and it will simply work on every Linux distribution that supports snaps. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact of the advantages of snap packages is that they are self-contained. This is a guest post by Software engineers Tim Peeters and Timo Jyrinki at Canonical.