Canonical’s snapcraft tool unfortunately currently isn’t packaged for debian. In this post I’ll describe how I got a build of it to work on my machine™. Note that this is a messy process which will give any of the “don’t make a frankendebian!” guys eye cancer, and for good reason.
What you’ll need
- patience
- free time
- a machine running debian sid (stretch/jessie might work, haven’t tested)
How to
Step 1: Install (some of the) dependencies
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y build-essential dpkg-dev wget git debhelper pkg-config python3-docopt python3-fixtures python3-jsonschema python3-libarchive-c python3-lxml python3-magic python3-progressbar python3-pymacaroons python3-requests-toolbelt python3-responses python3-simplejson python3-setuptools python3-tabulate python3-testscenarios python3-testtools python3-xdg python3-yaml squashfs-tools xdelta3
Step 2: Clone the latest snapcraft
The stable version (2.26) had some issues when I tried to use it, so we’ll build from git.
mkdir snapcraft && cd snapcraft
git clone https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft
Step 3: Build a frankendebian
The packages python3-petname and python3-pysha3 are currently not packaged in debian, so we’ll download them from ubuntu.
This should be low risk, given that those packages have few dependencies and are generally not tightly coupled with other packages.
wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python-petname/python3-petname_2.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python3-petname_2.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pysha3/python3-pysha3_1.0.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i python3-pysha3_1.0.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo apt -f install
Step 4: Build the package
cd snapcraft
#Tests are currently broken, disable them
export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
Step 5: Install
sudo dpkg -i ../snapcraft_*.deb
Profit!