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title: Install ros-lyrical-desktop-dev on Debian using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of ros-lyrical-desktop-dev for on Debian - The
  ROS 2 lyrical desktop variant.
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/ros-lyrical-desktop-dev/debian
---

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# Install ros-lyrical-desktop-dev on **Debian**

# ros-lyrical-desktop-dev

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/ros-lyrical-desktop-dev/debian#install)

#### The ROS 2 lyrical desktop variant.

This snap contains the ROS 2 lyrical desktop variant [1].

It provides the ROS 2 lyrical stack to other snaps to that use it.
It shares the ROS 2 lyrical libraries, components and executables
through the content interface.
This helps reduce the size of snaps and helps developers to easily snap ROS 2 lyrical 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 ROS, please contact the experts on the Snapcraft forum [2].

*For developers*

The `ros` extensions are the recommended way to use this in your own snap [3].
Find out how to do so in the documentation [4].
You can report issues with this content snap on GitHub [5] where the source code is available [6]. \

[1] <https://ros.org/reps/rep-2001.html>

[2] <https://forum.snapcraft.io/>
[3] <https://snapcraft.io/docs/supported-extensions>
[4] <https://ubuntu.com/robotics/docs/ros-deployment-with-snaps-part-4>
[5] <https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps/issues>
[6] <https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps>

ROS lyrical logo is a trademark of Open Source Robotics Foundation.

### Package name

* ros-lyrical-desktop-dev

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### License

* unset

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### Last updated

* 9 October 2026 - latest/stable
* 13 October 2026 - latest/beta

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### Websites

* [github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps](https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps "https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps")

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### Contact

* [ubuntu-robotics-community@canonical.com](mailto:ubuntu-robotics-community@canonical.com "mailto:ubuntu-robotics-community@canonical.com")

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### Source code

* [github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps](https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps "https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps/issues](https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps/issues "https://github.com/canonical/ros-content-sharing-snaps/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/ros-lyrical-desktop-dev/debian#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Debian and install ros-lyrical-desktop-dev

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

On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:

```
sudo snap install snapd
```

### Install ros-lyrical-desktop-dev

To install ros-lyrical-desktop-dev, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install ros-lyrical-desktop-dev
```

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