Following instructions found here: installing-snap-on-opensuse. Here is a copy of the console messages:
Adding repository ‘snappy’ …[done]
Repository ‘snappy’ successfully added
URI : download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.2
Enabled : Yes
GPG Check : Yes
Autorefresh : Yes
Priority : 99 (default priority)
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.
opensuse: /home/pete # sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Retrieving repository ‘Text editors and hex editors for Linux (openSUSE_Leap_15.2)’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘Text editors and hex editors for Linux (openSUSE_Leap_15.2)’ cache …[done]
Repository ‘openSUSE-Leap-15.2-1’ is up to date.
Repository ‘Main Repository’ is up to date.
Retrieving repository ‘Main Update Repository’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘Main Update Repository’ cache …[done]
Retrieving repository ‘snappy’ metadata ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[|]
Automatically importing the following key:
Repository: snappy
Key Name: system:snappy OBS Project system:snappy@build.opensuse.org
Key Fingerprint: 4F2FA05B 2C6589C3 FD12055E F7C6E425 ED340235
Key Created: Sat Oct 31 11:59:39 2020
Key Expires: Mon Jan 9 10:59:39 2023
Rpm Name: gpg-pubkey-ed340235-5f9d97fb
Retrieving repository ‘snappy’ metadata …[done]
Building repository ‘snappy’ cache …[done]
Repository ‘weewx’ is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.
opensuse:/home/pete # sudo zypper dup --from snappy
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…
Nothing to do.
opensuse:/home/pete # sudo zypper install snapd
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
‘snapd’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘snapd’ found.
Resolving package dependencies…
Nothing to do.
opensuse: /home/pete # sudo snap install certbot --classic
output written to snap.tar.gz
WARNING: archive may contain confidential data and/or cleartext passwords!
You’ll notice the last command using snap resulted in “output written to snap.tar.gz” which indicates that IBM’s snap command was used. I can rename the IBM snap binary but I cannot understand why the snapd install fails with “No provider of ‘snapd’ found.” Is it the PPC64 architecture, or something else?
NOTE: I had to mangle a few of the URI references because they were seen as links and as a new user I can only have two links (although the references were just the ones in the documentation)