General Notes

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Snap is a squashfs used to distribute applications on Linux targets in a secure, easy and maintainable fashion.

Snap commands official reference

Installation

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Installing snap

• Info on installing snap can be found at: The official snap installation guide

• For more info check: Complete snap usage article

• Most Linux distros are covered there. If you encounter a problem contact us @ [email protected].

Installing reicast

• To install reicast (after having snap setup), simply run:

snap install reicast --edge 

• This will get the latest master build for reicast.
• If it fails, run it with sudo.

Developer Notes

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• snap and snapcraft info:

  • Snapcraft is a command line tool used to build snaps.
  • For now, all snaps should be built to run against the ‘Series 16’ core.
  • Snaps are built to run against a base snap containing a minimal common runtime environment.
  • The best experience is generally to use a clean Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS system or LXD containers or VM running Ubuntu 16.04.3.
  • Snapcraft is itself available as a snap.
  • Snapcraft builds on top of tools like autotools, make, and cmake to create snaps for people to install on Linux.

• Additional Links:

  • The snapcraft syntax
  • Snapcraft commands reference
  • Snapcraft plugins reference