Snapcraft

SNAP

Snapcraft is a special jailed development environment. Snapcraft or simply snap is a self-contained way of packaging software that enables independent software installation. Everything that is needed to run an application is part of the snap package, so there are no external dependencies outside the snap package and no dependency with the application repository. The tool for using snaps is called snapd (the Snapcraft daemon), which must be installed first.

Install

 sudo apt install snapd

As a side effect of using --devmode the snap will not automatically update. In order to update to a newer version you can run:

$ snap refresh --beta --devmode <<name of software>>

Example SNAP software

Is it installed or what about it?

snap info <<softwarename>>

vlc

Check this out...

• http://wiki.robotz.com/index.php?title=VideoLAN_Player#via_snap

anbox

I tried to install it one way, and on Mint 18 it failed, so I tired another way... see below...

nicolep@solo ~/tmp $ snap install --classic anbox-installer && anbox-installer
anbox-installer 1 from morphis installed
The anbox-installer is deprecated. Please find updated installation
instructions here https://github.com/anbox/anbox/blob/master/docs/install.md

For any further questions please ask on the #anbox IRC channel on the
FreeNode network or in the Anbox telegram group (https://t.me/anbox).
nicolep@solo ~/tmp $ snap install --devmode --beta anbox
anbox (beta) 4-e1ecd04 from morphis installed

I don't know, maybe that helps you. Try it both ways.

You need some kernel stuff

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:morphis/anbox-support
sudo apt install anbox-modules-dkms
sudo modprobe ashmem_linux
sudo modprobe binder_linux
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb

Oh I guess snap isn't so great after all, I still need to manually add kernel modules!!!!

Also, you need to reboot now that you mucked about with your kernel.