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title: Install spread-plus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of spread-plus for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  - Convenient full-system test (task) distribution
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/spread-plus/rhel
---

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# Install spread-plus on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux**

# spread-plus

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/spread-plus/rhel#install)

#### Convenient full-system test (task) distribution

Spread Plus is a fork of Spread created to serve as a development and experimentation
ground for new ideas, features, and improvements that may later be proposed for inclusion
in the upstream Spread project.

While remaining fully compatible with existing Spread configurations, Spread Plus aims to
enhance the developer experience in several key areas:
. Improved debugging capabilities, offering more detailed logs, better traceability, and
clearer failure reporting to simplify test analysis and issue resolution.
. Enhanced CI integration, making it easier to connect Spread with modern continuous
integration systems and automate complex testing pipelines.
. Expanded backend availability, enabling tests to be executed on a wider range of
environments and targets, from virtualized systems to containerized and remote backends.

The primary goal of Spread Plus is to make the testing and validation workflow more transparent, reliable, and adaptable — without compromising compatibility with the original Spread framework. In practice, it acts as an innovation branch where new functionality is explored, validated, and refined before being proposed upstream.

### Package name

* spread-plus

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### License

* unset

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### Last updated

* 3 July 2026 - latest/beta
* 3 July 2026 - latest/edge

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## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install spread-plus

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 [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.

The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command:

```
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
```

Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended:

```
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
```

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 spread-plus

To install spread-plus, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install spread-plus --beta
```

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