Is the classic environment available for use in core20? I see core20 reported in Canonical’s classic snap user distribution chart but there’s only tracks for 16 & 18 but nothing for core20. When trying to install it on a node with “sudo snap install --channel=18/beta classic --devmode” it reports “error: snap “classic” not found” with or without the channel specified.
Whatever it is, it looks abandoned:
- no updates since July 2019. (Before core20 was a thing)
- no
stable
(or evencandidate
) releases
Why would you want to install it?
A customer has a custom backup agent they want to use for disaster recovery. We’d prefer to just have a method for them to install it in the classic environment rather than build and maintain a snap for them.
The best alternative is likely installing the LXD snap and setting up a container which would act similarly to a classic environment. The classic
snap is a relic that hasn’t been supported in years.