Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap

Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by padraic7a on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:43AM (#20181405)

I don't know lots about the technical differences but if I understand it correctly snaps can be created for servers but flatpaks can't.

Apart from that Flatpak is largely, but not exclusively, a Gnome effort while Snap is backed by Canonical and Ubuntu, though again not exclusively.

That's a statement of fact but usually in these discussions it's uttered as a value judgement. The ensuing discussion creates much more heat than light.

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Re:Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap by simosx on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:36AM (#20181627)

The "snap for servers" was an issue so long time ago. I do not think it is worth repeating.

Both snaps and flatpaks require a core image (a rootfs), and each package sits on top of that rootfs.

For snaps, there is the core16 (and core18) images, which have quite a lot of shared libraries. Your snap package simply contains your program and any other extra libraries that are missing from the core image.

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