Installing the daemon

Snaps are app packages for desktop, cloud and IoT that are easy to install, secure, cross-platform and dependency-free.

The snap daemon, known as snapd, is the background service that manages and maintains your snaps. It needs to be running before a snap can be installed.

Fortunately, the snap daemon is pre-installed and running on many distributions by default, and it’s easy to install on most other distributions.

Distributions with the snap daemon (snapd) pre-installed

The snap daemon is pre-installed and ready to go on the following:


KDE Neon	Manjaro
Solus	Ubuntu 18.04 and above
Most Ubuntu flavours	Zorin OS

Distributions without the snap daemon (snapd) pre-installed

For distributions without the snap daemon pre-installed, use the links below for specific installation instructions:


AlmaLinux OS	Arch Linux
CentOS	Debian
elementary OS	Fedora
GalliumOS	Kali Linux
KDE Neon*	Kubuntu
Linux Mint	Lubuntu
Manjaro*	openSUSE
Parrot Security OS	Pop!_OS
Raspberry Pi OS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rocky Linux	Solus
Ubuntu*	Xubuntu
Zorin OS*

* While snapd is pre-installed on these systems, installation instructions can help if you’re using older versions, or want to re-install snap after removing it.

See Troubleshooting for help resolving installation issues.

Last updated 2 months ago.

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