{"id":45981,"date":"2017-09-29T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/?p=45981"},"modified":"2018-02-11T21:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:12:15","slug":"retroarch-snap-packages-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/retroarch-snap-packages-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"RetroArch Snap Packages Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntusnappy-580x358.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45985 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntusnappy-580x358-300x185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntusnappy-580x358-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntusnappy-580x358.png 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Adding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/retroarch-with-flatpak\/\">our existing FlatPak packages<\/a> for distro-independent installation, RetroArch is now available as a snap package, as well. We&#8217;re using <a href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/\">Canonical&#8217;s SnapCraft.io<\/a> build service, which produces i386, x86_64 and armhf builds. Canonical&#8217;s official instructions for installing snap packages on a variety of distros are available here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/docs\/core\/install\">https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/docs\/core\/install<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already have the snap package manager installed, you can download the snap package directly from uApp Explorer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uappexplorer.com\/snap\/ubuntu\/retroarch\">https:\/\/uappexplorer.com\/snap\/ubuntu\/retroarch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and Ubuntu users can search for and install RetroArch directly from the Ubuntu Software store:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntu-software.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntu-software-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntu-software-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntu-software-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntu-software-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ubuntu-software.png 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you run into any issues with the snap package, please report them at the retroarch-snap meta-repo, located here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/libretro\/retroarch-snap\">https:\/\/github.com\/libretro\/retroarch-snap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This package includes assets, database, cheats, joypad autoconfig, info cores, overlay and shaders. After installation, you&#8217;ll also need to connect 2 interfaces to get joysticks working:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo snap connect retroarch:raw-usb<\/p>\n<p>sudo snap connect retroarch:joystick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to use any cores that require BIOS files, you&#8217;ll probably want to stop by settings &gt; directory and select a system\/BIOS directory, as well. Other than that, you should be good to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding to our existing FlatPak packages for distro-independent installation, RetroArch is now available as a snap package, as well. We&#8217;re using Canonical&#8217;s SnapCraft.io build service, which produces i386, x86_64 and armhf builds. Canonical&#8217;s official instructions for installing snap packages on a variety of distros are available here: https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/docs\/core\/install If you already have the snap package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,2,80,5,173,174],"tags":[67,134,56,176,175],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45981"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46003,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45981\/revisions\/46003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}