A snap is a bundle of an app and its dependencies that works without modification across many different Linux distributions. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions. Snapcraft is a powerful and easy to use command line tool for building snaps.

What is snap for Linux?

Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.

Is snap safe Linux?

Garret works as a Linux kernel developer and security developer at CoreOS, so he should know what he’s talking about. According to Garret, “Any Snap package you install is completely capable of copying all your private data to wherever it wants with very little difficulty.”