[lxc-users] future of lxc/lxd? snap?

Steven Spencer sspencerwire at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 16:36:03 UTC 2019


All,

Regarding the availability of snapd for CentOS 7 (or Red Hat Enterprise),
you need only enable the epel repository prior to attempting to install
snapd:

yum install epel-release

Then install snapd:

yum update
yum install snapd

That's it.

Thanks,
Steven G. Spencer

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 3:30 PM <lducos at biblibre.com> wrote:

> Hello
> have you read this documentation ?
> https://docs.snapcraft.io/installing-snap-on-centos/10020
>
> 26 février 2019 09:28 "Harald Dunkel" <harald.dunkel at aixigo.de> a écrit:
>
> > On 2/25/19 11:20 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> >> snapd + LXD work fine on CentOS 7, it's even in our CI environment, so
> >> presumably the same steps should work on RHEL 7.
> >>
> > Apparently it doesn't work that fine:
> >
> > [root at centos7 ~]# yum install snapd
> > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
> > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> > * base: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
> > * extras: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
> > * updates: mirror.infonline.de
> > No package snapd available.
> > Error: Nothing to do
> >
> > Of course I found some howtos on the net (e.g.
> > https://computingforgeeks.com/install-snapd-snap-applications-centos-7),
> > but thats not the point. The point is to integrate LXD without 3rd-party
> > tools that are difficult to find and install on their own.
> >
> > Surely I don't blame you for the not-invented-here approach of others,
> but
> > LXD appears to be difficult to build or integrate, even on native Debian.
> >
> > Regards
> > Harri
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