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title: Install pollen on Pop!_OS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of pollen for on Pop!_OS - Pollen Entropy-as-a-Service
  web server
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/pop
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# Install pollen on **Pop!\_OS**

# pollen

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/pop#install)

#### Pollen Entropy-as-a-Service web server

Pollen is a high-performance, scalable, free web server that provides 'Entropy-as-a-Service' by offering small strings of entropy over both HTTPS and clear-text HTTP connections.
Canonical provides a Pollen server as a service to the Ubuntu community at <https://entropy.ubuntu.com>. Beginning with Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu cloud images include the Pollinate client, which will try (for up to 3 seconds at first boot) to seed the PRNG with input from <https://entropy.ubuntu.com>.
This snap package is specifically designed to work with the Pollen charm in order to provide easy and seamless deployment within a juju-managed environment. This snapped pollen includes additional support for Prometheus metrics to integrate with Canonical Observability Stack.

### Package name

* pollen

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### License

* AGPL-3.0

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### Last updated

* 24 July 2024 - latest/stable
* 24 July 2024 - latest/beta

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [launchpad.net/pollen](https://launchpad.net/pollen "https://launchpad.net/pollen")

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### Source code

* [github.com/canonical/pollen](https://github.com/canonical/pollen "https://github.com/canonical/pollen")

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### Report a bug

* [bugs.launchpad.net](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pollen "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pollen")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/pop#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Pop!\_OS and install pollen

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 Pop!\_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 pollen

To install pollen, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install pollen
```

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