Snap provides plenty of background information about what’s happening when a snap is installed and removed, but we’re first going to login and install a test snap to work with.
Login for convenience
By first logging in to your online snap account, you remove the need to use sudo with privileged snap commands like install, refresh, remove and revert.
If you haven’t already, create a snap account at [https://login.ubuntu.com/] and login via the command line:
$ snap login
Personal information is handled as per our privacy notice at
https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/dataprivacy/snap-store
E-mail address:
Password of <user>:
Two-factor code: 155717
Login successful
You will only be asked for a two-factor code if you have it enabled on your account.
Another advantage of being logged in is that you get access to your private snaps. Private snaps allow developers to share snaps with a small group of people, which is useful for beta-testing, for instance.
Typing snap logout will log the current user out.
Install a test snap
Let’s install the chuck-norris-webserver snap, which a good test-case for a variety of snap functionality:
$ snap install chuck-norris-webserver
chuck-norris-webserver (stable) 1.0 from 'didrocks' installed
Though it’s not obvious, installation involves many small steps. You get some impression of these with the messages that briefly appear.
In the next step, we’ll decipher those steps. But to set the scene, we first need to remove the snap:
$ snap remove chuck-norris-webserver
chuck-norris-webserver removed
