--- title: Install Grimmory on CentOS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of Grimmory for on CentOS - A self-hosted web app for organising your personal book collection url: https://snapcraft.io/install/grimmory/centos --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install Grimmory on **CentOS** # Grimmory [Dan Bishop (danbishop)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/danbishop "View all snaps from Dan Bishop (danbishop)") * [Dan Bishop (danbishop)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/danbishop "View all snaps from Dan Bishop (danbishop)") * [Books and Reference](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=books-and-reference) * [Server and Cloud](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=server-and-cloud) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/grimmory/centos#install) #### A self-hosted web app for organising your personal book collection Grimmory is a self-hosted app that brings your entire book collection under one roof. Organise, read, annotate, sync, and share. **This is an unofficial snap.** After installing, and waiting for the the various services to start, your instance will be accessible at You'll probably want to connect the snap as follows to grant access to your books which should be in `/mnt/somewhere` or `/media/somewhere` so that the snap can see them: `sudo snap connect grimmory:removable-media` `sudo snap connect grimmory:mount-observe` There are two services, backend (the Grimmory server), and mariadb (the database server). The database files and logs are stored in the snap's data directory, which is preserved across snap updates. **Ports** You can change the port that each service uses with the following commands: For the port that MariaDB listens on (default 41936): `sudo snap set grimmory database-port=` For the port that grimmory-api listens on (default 6060): `sudo snap set grimmory api-port=` After changing the ports, you will need to restart the snap for the changes to take effect: `sudo snap restart grimmory` **Database** If you need to connect to the MariaDB database from outside the snap, the username is `grimmory` and you can use the following command to get the password: `snap get grimmory database-password` You can also connect with the following command as root: `sudo mariadb --socket=/var/snap/grimmory/common/run/mysql/mysqld.sock -u root --skip-ssl` ### Package name * grimmory --- ### License * GPL-3.0 --- ### Last updated * 13 October 2026 - latest/stable * 19 October 2026 - latest/edge --- ### Websites * [grimmory.org](https://grimmory.org/ "https://grimmory.org/") --- ### Contact * [d@nbishop.uk](mailto:d@nbishop.uk "mailto:d@nbishop.uk") --- ### Donations * [opencollective.com](https://opencollective.com/grimmory "https://opencollective.com/grimmory") --- ### Source code * [github.com/grimmory-tools/grimmory](https://github.com/grimmory-tools/grimmory "https://github.com/grimmory-tools/grimmory") --- ### Report a bug * [github.com/danbishop/grimmory-snap/issues](https://github.com/danbishop/grimmory-snap/issues "https://github.com/danbishop/grimmory-snap/issues") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/grimmory/centos#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on CentOS and install Grimmory 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 is available for [CentOS 7.6+](https://snapcraft.io/install/grimmory/centos), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command: ``` sudo yum install epel-release ``` Snap can now be installed as follows: ``` sudo yum install snapd ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` 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 Grimmory To install Grimmory, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install grimmory ``` ### 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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