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Ubuntu? I suspect not. Why would you when Snap is right there and is just as easy?

Debian: probably, yes.

Ubuntu derivatives such as Mint, Zorin OS, and ArduinOS use Flatpak instead.

Others, such as Asmi and Linux Lite, remove snap and offer the user the option of adding it back if they wish.



Ah, I thought Ubuntu only had the Debian package manager, but that's not the case anymore.


Good heavens no. This has not been the case for a decade or more!

The first version with snap as standard was 16.04 in 2016:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-unveils-6th-lts-release-of...

However Ubuntu Core, its immutable distro built entirely from snap packages, was launched in 2014 and there was a Core version of Ubuntu 12:

https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ubuntu-core/release...

There are about half a dozen cross-distro packaging schemes for Linux, including Nix, Guix, AppImage, Flatpak, Snap, and 0install.

However two are mainstream and supported by large vendors: Flatpak is from the GNOME organisation and is backed by Red Hat and Fedora, and Snap is a Canonical project and part of Ubuntu, the single most widely-used distribution by a considerable margin.




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