snapd available in Trusty Tahr

[Thomas Voß]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server-lts-xenial/+bug/1655724
was released to the updates pocket today.

Cheers,

  Thomas

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:51:59AM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> On 31/01/17 14:01, Jamie Bennett wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The team are pleased to announce that, after extensive testing in proposed, snapd is officially available in the Trusty Tahr updates archive [1]. If you are running a 14.04 system we encourage you to give it a try and report any issues [2]. Thanks to all involved in making this happen.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Jamie.
>> >
>> > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/snapd
>> > [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd
>>
>> I tried this earlier today on a Trusty machine and ran into some
>> difficulties installing.  `sudo apt install snapd` resulted in the following
>> error message:
>>
>>     snapd: Depends: systemd (>= 204-5ubuntu20.20) but it is not going to be
>> installed
>>
>> Attempting to install systemd directly (to work out what was wrong) resulted
>> in something similar:
>>
>>     gnome-control-center: Depends: libcheese-gtk23 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not
>> going to be installed
>>                                    libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1) ...
>>
>>     ubuntu-control-center: Depends: libcheese-gtk23 (>= 3.4.0) ...
>>                                     libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1) ...
>>
>> Any thoughts on what could be wrong here?
>>
>
> Yup, you are hit by the issue described in here:
>
>   http://askubuntu.com/questions/878750/snapd-package-conflicts-with-xorg-packages/878770#878770
>
> In summary, we are waiting for an SRU (see [1]) for the xorg xenial lts stack to
> arrive in -updates. The short term fix is to enable -proposed. If that
> does not solve your issue, please report a bug against
> https://launchpad.net/snapd tagging it with trusty.
>
> Thanks for trying out snapd on trusty,
>
>   Thomas
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1619142
>
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