Snapcraft Distribution

[pfrazee]

We want to have a Snapcraft distribution for Beaker but I'm hitting some issues getting it to work.

Currently when starting the Snap from its installed location via the Ubuntu shell, the "init window" is just blank. Turning off the process-level sandbox by commenting out app.enableSandbox() appears to solve the blank window but initial setup doesn't proceed.

Running the installed snap from the CLI seems to solve the issues so the breakdown must have something to do with how it's being initialized when launched via Ubuntu's app launcher.

[ghost]

Same issue exists when attempting to flatpak. White rectangle followed by a purple rectangle, and then it just hangs. In fact, disabling X11 permission causes the application not to launch at all with the error FUSE bindings are not available on this platform.

[pfrazee]

The FUSE error should just cause FUSE not to run. I'm 99% sure this also relates to the issues we're having with AppImage

[da2x]

@pfrazee the AppImage doesn’t include node. The Hyperspace daemon assumed it could find it from /usr/bin/env node. If it’s installed on the host runtime then the AppImage may work. All runtime dependencies are supposed to be bundled in the AppImage, however.

The Flatpak issue is similar. There is no node process in the PATH inside the “default” org.freedesktop.Sdk runtime environment. The org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.node14 SDK extension can be used to add it in.

I’m assuming this is the problem you’re having with the Snappy environment too, although I’ve not confirmed that.