Offline snap installers and possibility to update

[Alculete]

Since not everyone has a unlimited data plan, shouldn’t be possible for a user to download an app from uAppExplorer for offline install and lately be able to update?

[kyrofa]

Yeah, try this:

$ snap download hello-world
Fetching snap "hello-world"
Fetching assertions for "hello-world"
kyrofa@Pandora:~$ sudo snap ack hello-world_27.assert 
kyrofa@Pandora:~$ sudo snap install hello-world_27.snap
hello-world 6.3 from 'canonical' installed
kyrofa@Pandora:~$ snap list
Name                   Version                   Rev   Developer      Notes
<snip>
hello-world            6.3                       27    canonical      -

Note that this will provide the ability to update. All you need are the snap and the assertion provided by snap download.

[Alculete]

Ok for a normal user to know this would be a lot harder. I think downloading from uAppExplorer is easy for any user keep the file on a folder and not needing to assert the file like .deb files.

[kyrofa]

(Note that uAppExplorer is a third-party website: we have no control over it.)

[Alculete]

@kyrofa

Yeah, try this:

$ snap download hello-world Fetching snap “hello-world” Fetching assertions for “hello-world” kyrofa@Pandora:~$ sudo snap ack hello-world_27.assert kyrofa@Pandora:~$ sudo snap install hello-world_27.snap hello-world 6.3 from ‘canonical’ installed kyrofa@Pandora:~$ snap list Name Version Rev Developer Notes <snip> hello-world 6.3 27 canonical -

Note that this will provide the ability to update. All you need are the snap and the assertion provided by snap download.

Partially solves the problem but, is better than nothing.