Note that the snap can coexist with the ubuntu packages. If you wish to remove the ubuntu packages to use solely the snap, you can do:
sudo apt remove “chromium-*”
Requested Setups
At the moment that version of the snap is available for amd64 and i386 processors only. It is expected to work on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04 and 17.10, and more generally on any linux distribution that supports snaps.
Specific Tests
I’m interested in your feedback using the snap for your normal browsing activities and workflows.
Please report any issues you encounter in this thread. Thanks!
Took a good minute to load the first time, couldn’t find via the menu under Budgie so ran /snap/bin/chromium
Font’s look incorrect, not sure how to get any more detail for you, from running on the CLI I get these messages, not sure if helpful at all
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
[8951:9034:0928/153218.652016:ERROR:udev_watcher.cc(60)] Failed to begin udev enumeration.
The “Clear Sans” font doesn’t appear to be packaged in Ubuntu, so it can’t easily be added to the snap’s stage packages. This problem will go away once snapd allows access to the host’s fonts, see the work James has done here.
If you can point me to the solus package for that fonts, I might be able to add it to the snap manually.
Found the font package from solus, and added to the snap here.
A build will kick off automatically shortly, and I will update the candidate channel once built.
