Install or Upgrade Snap Packages in Linux

Hello there, If you are a Linux user, especially an Ubuntu user, then I think you are familiar with snap packages already.

First, To install or Upgrade snap packages, let's check if snapd is installed or Not.

snap --version

If not, we can use the below commands to install the snap package manager:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install snapd

NOTE: I am using Ubuntu 20.04 to install the snap package manager. For all major Linux distributions, follow this link SnapCraft Link.

INSTALL THE SNAP PACKAGES:

To find a package to install from the Snap app store, follow this link SnapCraft App Store. Here you will get all available apps on the snap store.

The below command is used to install the package.

sudo snap install package_name

NOTE: Don't forget to replace the package_name with the package you want to install.

UPGRADE THE SNAP PACKAGES

By default, the snap package manager upgrades all the packages which are installed using it. But if you want, we can upgrade it manually too.

To list packages installed through the Snap package manager, paste the below command into the terminal.

 snap list

To get the list of packages that need to upgrade, use the below command

 sudo snap refresh --list

To upgrade all the packages, the below command upgrades all the packages which have newly updated versions available.

sudo snap refresh

To upgrade a specific package.

sudo snap refresh package_name

NOTE: Don't forget to replace the package_name with the package you want to upgrade.

NOTE: To update one or more Snap packages, you need to close all the currently open windows of that respective packages. Otherwise snap will not update that package even if there is any update present for the respective package.

Thank you for reading the post. I hope you find out this post useful.