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title: Install gnome-core26 on elementary OS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of gnome-core26 for on elementary OS - Shared
GNOME Ubuntu stack
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/gnome-core26/elementary
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# Install gnome-core26 on **elementary OS**
# gnome-core26
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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/gnome-core26/elementary#install)
#### Shared GNOME Ubuntu stack
This snap provides the GNOME stack to other snaps that use it. It shares the base GNOME libraries and desktop integration components through the content interface. This helps reduce the size of snaps and helps developers to easily snap desktop applications.
**For users**
This snap is automatically installed and removed when needed. **Manually adding or removing this snap is not recommended** and might break things.
* If you are having issues with **snaps** using GNOME, please contact the experts on the Snapcraft forum:
* If you want to install the GNOME Desktop Environment, then you are in the wrong place. Please take a look at for more information on how to get it.
**For developers**
* The `gnome` extension is the recommended way to use this in your own snap:
* You can report issues with this content snap on GitHub:
* The source code of this snap is available on GitHub in the `gnome-core26` branch:
### Package name
* gnome-core26
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### License
* 0BSD AND AFL-2.0 AND AFL-2.1 AND AGPL-3.0-only AND AGPL-3.0-only WITH Font-exception-2.0 AND Apache-2.0 AND Artistic-1.0 AND Artistic-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0 AND CC0-1.0 AND EPL-1.0 AND GFDL-1.3-only AND GFDL-1.3-or-later AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Autoconf-exception-3.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Font-exception-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-only AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Autoconf-exception-3.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Font-exception-2.0 AND HPND AND ICU AND IJG AND ISC AND LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-only AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LPPL-1.3c AND Libpng AND MIT AND MPL-1.1 AND MPL-2.0 AND MS-PL AND OFL-1.1 AND OpenSSL AND Python-2.0 AND Sleepycat AND Unicode-DFS-2016 AND Unlicense AND Zlib
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### Last updated
* 9 October 2026 - latest/stable
* 9 October 2026 - latest/candidate
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### Contact
* [github.com/ubuntu/gnome-sdk/issues](https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-sdk/issues "https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-sdk/issues")
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### Source code
* [github.com/ubuntu/gnome-sdk/tree/gnome-core26](https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-sdk/tree/gnome-core26 "https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-sdk/tree/gnome-core26")
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## Enable snaps on elementary OS and install gnome-core26
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
Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open *Terminal* from the Applications launcher and type the following:
```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
### Install gnome-core26
To install gnome-core26, simply use the following command:
```
sudo snap install gnome-core26
```
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