---
title: Install Image Garden on Manjaro Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Image Garden for on Manjaro Linux - Full-system
  integration testing with virtual machines and cloud images
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/image-garden/manjaro
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# Install Image Garden on **Manjaro Linux**

# Image Garden

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/image-garden/manjaro#install)

#### Full-system integration testing with virtual machines and cloud images

Image Garden can download, initialize and operate virtual machines for
testing software against popular operating systems.

Thanks to the bundled copy of spread (<https://github.com/snapcore/spread>)
it can be used to perform real-world tests of a software project as it
would be running on a particular release of Debian, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Core,
Fedora, openSUSE, Arch Linux, Amazon Linux, CentOS, Alma Linux, Rocky
Linux, Alpine Linux and more.

Find integration pain points before they happen to your users or
customers. Run the same tests locally and in CI/CD pipelines like
GitHub Actions and GitLab. Spread execution across many virtual
machines to take advantage of all the available CPU cores. Use
cloud-init to automatically create and maintain tailored disk images that
fit the requirements of your project.

The snap bundles the following software:

* image-garden: the main application
  (<https://gitlab.com/zygoon/image-garden>)
* spread, spread-plus: integration test runners
  (<https://github.com/snapcore/spread>,
  <https://github.com/canonical/spread-plus>)
* QEMU system emulators for x86\_64, aarch64, riscv64, s390x, ppc64,
  loongarch64 (<https://www.qemu.org>)
* apt-cacher-ng: caching HTTP proxy for apt
  (<https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/>)
* auto-apt-proxy: automatic proxy configuration for guest hosts
* virtiofsd: virtio filesystem daemon for efficient host-guest file sharing
* GNU make, GNU wget, GNU tar (xz compression), xorriso, coreutils (nproc)

### Package name

* image-garden

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### License

* Apache-2.0

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### Last updated

* 24 August 2026 - latest/stable
* 25 August 2026 - latest/edge

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### Source code

* [gitlab.com/zygoon/image-garden](https://gitlab.com/zygoon/image-garden "https://gitlab.com/zygoon/image-garden")

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## Enable snaps on Manjaro Linux and install Image Garden

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

Snapd can be installed from Manjaro’s Add/Remove Software application (Pamac), found in the launch menu. From the application, search for *snapd*, select the result, and click Apply.

Alternatively, *snapd* can be installed from the command line:

```
sudo pacman -S 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 Image Garden

To install Image Garden, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install image-garden
```

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### More things to do…

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#### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs)

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