14 DAY TRIAL // If you've ever dreamed of having a central hub for all your web communication tools, you should know that the powerful Wavebox web app is now available for installation on Ubuntu Linux systems as a Snap.
That's right, Wavebox was finally ported to Canonical's Snappy technologies that let application developers package their apps as Snaps to make their distribution easy across multiple GNU/Linux operating systems. And now, it looks Wavebox arrive in the Snappy Store and can be installed on Ubuntu and other supported distros.
For those unfamiliar to Wavebox, it's a web application that brings together all the popular communication tools that you probably use on a daily basis to your favorite desktop. These include Google's Gmail and Inbox, Microsoft's Outlook and Office 365, as well as Trello, Slack, and many others.
It's extremely easy to install Wavebox as a Snap
Until now, Wavebox was available for select distros as a tarball, as well as Ubuntu and Debian-based systems as a DEB package and APT repository, but now the Snap makes installing Wavebox a breeze. All you have to do is to run the "sudo snap install wavebox" command in a terminal emulator.
"When we launched Wavebox for Linux we were only offering a tar version, but we knew it was a bit cumbersome having to re-download it for every update. It had always been our plan to offer an easier download-and-update experience but we weren’t sure where to start," said Thomas Beverley, Co-Founder and Software Engineer at Wavebox.
Canonical's Lucia de Castro has had a chat with Thomas Beverley about his experience with packaging apps as Snaps for Ubuntu and other Snappy-compatible GNU/Linux distributions. You can read the entire interview here, as it can inspire other developers to bring their apps to the GNU/Linux ecosystem via the Snap universal binary format.
