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> To install Anbox your system need to support snaps. Go away.

by peanut-walrus 6y ago

throwaway123x2 6y ago
What's wrong with snaps?
- akvadrako 6y ago
  They can practically only be distributed by Canonical. It's technically possible to point to a third-party server, but (1) it only supports one, so you have to stop using Canonical's and (2) there is no open-source server software.
  - ficklepickle 6y ago
    (3) in practice, they are never sandboxed
franga2000 6y ago
I've gotten it running on Arch without Snap, so it's not a hard requirement, just a convenience. But I haven't tried it recently as Anbox needs a custom kernel since Linux 5.7, which I am too lazy to do, so the situation might've changed.
kleiba 6y ago
Why is Anbox only distributed as a snap? Anbox is currently only distributed as a snap as snaps makes the life for us developers pretty easy. They allow us fast and easy packaging, easy distribution to our users, as well as regular and fast updates. Flatpak would be another alternative but we didn't investigate this yet, nor are we planing to do so in the near future. However, we're happy to accept contributions from the community around Anbox to provide necessary changes to distribute Anbox as a flatpak package too. One thing which Anbox currently doesn't do is using proper confinement for snaps. Right now it is only usable when installed in the so-called devmode of snaps which disables any confinement. This is something we will work on over the coming months with upstream to allow our snap to be fully confined. Despite snap confinement being disabled, the Android system still stays separate through the use of Linux namespaces from the host system.
srtjstjsj 6y ago
If you don't like snap, you can volunteer to package Anbox yourself instead of attacking people who are giving you a gift.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  Or they could just not use it and let the developer know that their poor choice of packaging format is why they aren't using it. Either the developer cares enough to take this feedback to heart or they don't.

> To install Anbox your system need to support snaps. Go away.

throwaway123x2 6y ago

What's wrong with snaps?

akvadrako 6y ago
They can practically only be distributed by Canonical. It's technically possible to point to a third-party server, but (1) it only supports one, so you have to stop using Canonical's and (2) there is no open-source server software.
- ficklepickle 6y ago
  (3) in practice, they are never sandboxed

franga2000 6y ago

I've gotten it running on Arch without Snap, so it's not a hard requirement, just a convenience. But I haven't tried it recently as Anbox needs a custom kernel since Linux 5.7, which I am too lazy to do, so the situation might've changed.

kleiba 6y ago

Why is Anbox only distributed as a snap? Anbox is currently only distributed as a snap as snaps makes the life for us developers pretty easy. They allow us fast and easy packaging, easy distribution to our users, as well as regular and fast updates. Flatpak would be another alternative but we didn't investigate this yet, nor are we planing to do so in the near future. However, we're happy to accept contributions from the community around Anbox to provide necessary changes to distribute Anbox as a flatpak package too. One thing which Anbox currently doesn't do is using proper confinement for snaps. Right now it is only usable when installed in the so-called devmode of snaps which disables any confinement. This is something we will work on over the coming months with upstream to allow our snap to be fully confined. Despite snap confinement being disabled, the Android system still stays separate through the use of Linux namespaces from the host system.

srtjstjsj 6y ago

If you don't like snap, you can volunteer to package Anbox yourself instead of attacking people who are giving you a gift.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
Or they could just not use it and let the developer know that their poor choice of packaging format is why they aren't using it. Either the developer cares enough to take this feedback to heart or they don't.