I’m trying to use snapcraft to package a Java 11 desktop application. It works fine on Ubuntu Cosmic because I can install openjdk-11-jre and openjfx via apt. But since snapcraft is using the xenial repository, I can’t build a snap, because The package 'openjdk-11-jre' was not found. Is there a wa…

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How to package OpenJDK 11 / OpenJFX 11 desktop application?

snapcraft

pachulo November 25, 2018, 11:49am 2

If you use the new core18 base you should be good to go. More info:

And an example of a snap using it: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/develop/snapcraft.yaml