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Can someone explain how badly `snap install --classic anbox-installer` might mess up my development machine? Can I expect uninstall to properly clean up?
by newsat13 10y ago
Can someone explain how badly `snap install --classic anbox-installer` might mess up my development machine? Can I expect uninstall to properly clean up?
- voltagex_ 10y agoI thought snaps were meant to be a container-like thing. Try it on a VM if you're worried?
- bjackman 10y agoIIUC installing the snap should be easily reversible, but it only installs an installer :). The installer then does some much more intrusive stuff, It has to install kernel modules for ashmem and binder. Can't really blame the devs, it's easy to see how this would be a hard thing to package via normal techniques.
- jumasheff 10y agoAnbox in docker should be a good choise here.
- icebraining 10y agoIt's already using containers (LXC) for running the actual Android system. The rest of the package contains kernel modules and udev rules, which aren't suitable for containerization.