Support Installing a local deb package in the snapcraft
Bug #1604669 reported by
XiaoGuo, Liu
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Snapcraft |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Sergio Schvezov |
Bug Description
I am trying to get the Chinese input method working for some of the snap apps. Currently, sogou Chinese input method is very popular in China. However, due to license issue, it does not exist in the ubuntu archive. In order to install it, a developer has to download its .deb file from a website and manually install it. The debian file can be found at:
http://
I think this may apply to some of the other software packages.
I think it would be better to support installing a local .deb file in the snapcraft so that a developer can easily package the .deb package into the final snap file.
Thanks & best regards,
XiaoGuo
Changed in snapcraft: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
milestone: | none → 2.18 |
Changed in snapcraft: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in snapcraft: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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I'm marking this as confirmed, with a note about the usability of this feature:
This is similar to the 96boards demo, that needs a file to be downloaded and placed in a location inside the snapcraft directory in order to build.
It's doable, but the experience is really bad.