This primarily focuses on functionality needed by owners of PPAs, to assist in their creation, deletion, and configuration. A key functionality is to poll and wait until the package(s) in the PPA have completed building; this permits blocking on the builds to delay other actions such as requesting users on a bug report to test the PPA, or submitting a merge proposal for the update to be considered for inclusion in the distro.
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, an app store with an audience of millions.
On a Raspberry Pi running the latest version of Raspbian snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
You will also need to reboot your device:
sudo reboot
After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:
sudo snap install snapd
To install ppa-dev-tools, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install ppa-dev-tools
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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