--- title: Install Datashare on Arch Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of Datashare for on Arch Linux - Datashare is a self-hosted search engine for documents. url: https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/arch --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install Datashare on **Arch Linux** # Datashare [International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/icij "View all snaps from International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij)") * [International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/icij "View all snaps from International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij)") * [Utilities](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=utilities) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/arch#install) #### Datashare is a self-hosted search engine for documents. Datashare is a self-hosted search engine for documents, using Apache Tika and Apache Tesseract to read thousands of file formats. This tool is developed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), famously known for its groundbreaking investigations into the offshore world (Pandora Papers, Panama Papers, etc). It also provides: * Many search filters (file types, creation date, languages, tags, etc) * Search in batch (with a CSV) * Search results download * Tagging and recommendation * Named Entities recognition with CoreNLP * Optical characters recognition with Apache Tesseract After the installation, open a terminal and use the following command to start Datashare: ``` datashare ``` Datashare should now be available on 🚀 ### Package name * datashare --- ### License * AGPL-1.0-or-later --- ### Last updated * 13 October 2026 - latest/stable * 28 October 2026 - latest/edge --- ### Websites * [datashare.icij.org](https://datashare.icij.org "https://datashare.icij.org") --- ### Contact * [datashare@icij.org](mailto:datashare@icij.org "mailto:datashare@icij.org") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/datashare/arch#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Arch Linux and install Datashare Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the [Arch User Repository (AUR).](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/snapd/) The [manual build process](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages) is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the [prerequisites](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Prerequisites) installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following: ``` git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git cd snapd makepkg -si ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` If [AppArmor](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AppArmor) is enabled in your system, enable the service which loads AppArmor profiles for snaps: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service ``` To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`: ``` sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap ``` Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly. ### Install Datashare To install Datashare, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install datashare ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? 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