Classic snap analyzer

Classic snap analyzer

Install latest/stable of Classic snap analyzer

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.


Install using the command line

sudo snap install classic-snap-analyzer --classic

Don't have snapd? Get set up for snaps.

Channel Version Published

Analyze running classic snaps for packaging issues

This package contains a utility for analysis of running processes belonging to snaps that use classic confinement. Classic confinement does not isolate the snap from the host (or the host from the snap) and doesn't use a mount namespace to ensure only the packaged shared libraries are used.

Because of this characteristic such snaps are prone to packaging bugs where the application only happens to work on a given machine because a critical dependency is unknowingly provided by the host.

This snap inspects the running snap application and reads the segments mapped into the process address space. Files mapped from /snap/core/ and /snap/$SNAP_NAME/ are ignored as they are exactly what correctly packaged applications should do. All other file segments are reported because they are used from the host directly and can thus break in the future.

Details for Classic snap analyzer

License
  • BSD-3-Clause

Last updated
  • 20 April 2018 - latest/stable
  • 20 April 2018 - latest/beta

Contact

Report a Snap Store violation

Share this snap

Generate an embeddable card to be shared on external websites.


Install Classic snap analyzer on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the installing snapd documentation.


Where people are using Classic snap analyzer

Users by distribution (log)

Ubuntu 24.04