14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical's Sergio Schvezov announced recently the release and immediate availability of the Snapcraft 2.19 tool for creating Snap universal packages, in the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 repos.
Snapcraft 2.19 comes just one week after the release of the previous maintenance version, Snapcraft 2.18, and promises to add "kinetic" support to the "catkin" plugin, update the "nodejs" plugin to use "run" commands, implement a top-level "sign-build" command for build signing, and add support for validating and gating Snaps through two new commands, "gated" and "validate."
"The latter make use of all the assertions work that has been worked on on the 'snapd', 'snapcraft' and store side (at the time of this writing the functionality might not be available on production servers just yet). As usual there are a handful of bugs fixed in the release which can be referred to on the milestone page," says Sergio Schvezov in the release announcement.
Here's how to enjoy Snapcraft 2.19 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 16.10
As usual, you can use the commands attached at the end of the article to enjoy the latest Snapcraft release on your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system. Also, it's now available for Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkey Yak) users too. Newcomers need to run the first two commands in the Terminal app to install Snapcraft.
After installation, we recommend running the third command to install the example Snap, which should help you get started much faster if you want to package your app(s) as Snaps. Additionally, we also recommend using the last command below to familiarize yourself with Snapcraft's options and parameters.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapcraft
sudo apt install snapcraft-examples
snapcraft --help