Installing MAAS on Centos 7

[jcalzadi69]

Hello
New to snapd.

Following this link, I am attempting to install MAAS on Centos 7.

Install MAAS (Metal as a Service) on CentOS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft

Suggestions on how do I address this?

https://snapcraft.io/install/maas/centos#installetting the following message:

• Mount snap “maas” (7808) (snap “maas” system usernames require a snapd built against libseccomp >= 2.4)

thank you…

[ijohnson]

@mborzecki thoughts on this? can we adjust the dependencies of snapd package on CentOS to require a newer libseccomp ?

[mborzecki]

A similar problem was discussed here.

Cannot install a snap that uses system usernames on centos

There is no different version of snapd for RHEL7/CentOS7 than one available from EPEL7 repo. From what I can tell, RHEL7 has libseccomp 2.3.1. You could build libseccomp and snapd yourself, the src.rpms are available. I’m not sure it’s worth the hassle though. Libseccomp is used by a number of packages which you’d likely need to rebuild too. Parallel installing or bundling a newer libseccomp in snapd is probably less work, yet still non trivial You may consider using RHEL8/Centos8 which has li…

I don’t think that snapd package could keep being available in EPEL if we start bundling libseccomp. On top of that, making sure that copy of libseccomp is bug free would become package maintainer’s problem.

Note that libseccomp in CentOS7 comes from RHEL7 and we have no control over what is in the distro. AFAIK RHEL7 is in maintenance mode, so I would not expect any major changes or updates, other than really critical fixes to be pushed into the repositories (which implies the same for CentOS 7). I would still suggest updating to CentOS 8.

[jcalzadi69]

Hello

Okay thank you for the update and time…
i appreciate it