How To Install snapd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd on CentOS 7.
What is snapd
Snappy is a modern, cross-distribution, transactional package manager designed for working with self-contained, immutable packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install snapd on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snapd.
Install snapd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install snapd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install snapd
Install snapd on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install snapd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install snapd
How To Uninstall snapd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the snapd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snapd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.