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This section of our documentation contains step-by-step tutorials to help outline what snap is capable of while helping you achieve specific aims, such as installing your favourite applications, taking a data snapshot, removing snaps or reinstalling the snap daemon (snapd).

Get started

Snap is installed by default on Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions. Our Features tour is an ideal way to get started.

  • Get started features tour: All of snap’s main features on a single page

Installation

Installation instructions for those distributions that don’t include snap by default, and for users who may have previously removed snap from distributions that do.

  • Installing snapd: Installation instructions for all popular Linux distributions

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