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<h3><a class="ablack" href="snaps-on-gentoo.html">
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Snaps on Gentoo
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<div class="subtitle">August 12, 2018 —
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Jesse Harris
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<h2 id="update-07092019">Update 07/09/2019</h2>
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<p>Snapd is now in a overlay on it's on for your convenience. See
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<a href="snapd-repository-for-gentoo.html">here</a></p>
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<h2 id="update">Update</h2>
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<p>The instructions to get snaps working on gentoo here are outdated. See my
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current post <a href="snaps-on-gentoo---the-saga-continues.html">Snaps on Gentoo - The saga continues</a></p>
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<h2 id="why">Why?</h2>
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<p>Many will think it is heresy to put binary packages on a Gentoo system
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let alone a package system which encourages binary packages to come with
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their own set of shared libraries.</p>
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<p>While I tend to agree, the practicality of sticking to this arrangement
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can be difficult for a couple of cases. Here are a few I can think of:</p>
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<li>Source not available</li>
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<li>No binary package or source ebuild for Gentoo</li>
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<li>ebuild takes too long to compile</li>
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</ul>
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<p>In the case of ebuilds taking too long (eg. chromium), I have a limited
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budget and can't really afford to leave my power hungry desktop on 24/7
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to keep chromium builds up-to-date.</p>
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<p>Here are a quick list of software that I use which fall into one of these
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categories:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Citrix Reciever</li>
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<li>Powershell (Available as source, but no ebuild and I haven't had the
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time to try write one myself)</li>
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<li>Minecraft (Gaming with the kids)</li>
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<li>Discord (Chatting with games)</li>
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<li>Chromium (Primarily a firefox user, but have some trouble with getting it
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to see and work with Citrix)</li>
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</ul>
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<p>With my excuses for putting snap's on Gentoo out of the way, here is how
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I've got it working for my systems.</p>
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<h2 id="overlay">Overlay</h2>
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<p>There are a few overlay's for Gentoo out there. Even an official one
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maintained (or as the case may be, unmaintained) by
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<a href="https://github.com/zyga">zyga</a> from Canonical. I tried that one, and many
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of the forks with no such luck.</p>
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<p>After googling around I stumbled on a thread on
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<a href="https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/gentoo-update-needed/3029/15">snapcraft.io</a>
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and a post from user jamesb192 about the progress on their snapd overlay.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/JamesB192/JamesB192-overlay">JamesB192 overlay</a> works,
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but it doesn't have an overlay.xml file for adding with layman.
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To overcome this, I've hosted one on my site
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<a href="http://jesseharrisit.com/overlay.xml">here</a>. You can add this to your
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system using overlay like this:</p>
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<pre><code> echo app-portage/layman git >> /etc/portage/package.use/layman
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emerge app-portage/layman
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layman -o http://jesseharrisit.com/overlay.xml -f -a gentoo-zigford
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</code></pre>
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<p>Now that you have the overlay installed should be able to emerge snapd
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like so:</p>
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<pre><code> emerge app-emulation/snapd
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</code></pre>
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<p><em>Note - You may need to adjust your kernel config and the ebuild is
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pretty good at highlighting which options need to be set.</em></p>
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<h2 id="issues">Issues</h2>
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<p>During my testing of snaps on Gentoo, I've come across a couple of issues
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that either have been solved or could be solved in the ebuild</p>
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<ol>
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<li>snap packages only install and run as root (This was solved by setting
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suid on /usr/lib64/snapd/snap-confine, and solved in ebuild 2.34)</li>
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<li>/var/lib/snapd not created (manually mkdir the directory)</li>
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</ol>
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<h2 id="final-thoughts">Final thoughts.</h2>
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<p>Snap packages feel like a great augmentation for Gentoo. It allows me to
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keep using Gentoo as a daily driver and augment some of it's missing
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packages with packages from more popular distros.</p>
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<p>Tags: <a href='tag_gentoo.html'>gentoo</a>, <a href='tag_snapd.html'>snapd</a>, <a href='tag_overlay.html'>overlay</a></p>
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