Hello I'm having trouble connecting my installation of Octaprint to my printer. I installed Octaprint using Snap on Ubuntu 18.04. The same printer works with a Rasperry PI running OctoPi but I just wanted to centralize my install.
Snap is Linux's me-too version of either Apple's app/iTunes provisioning and containment or perhaps Windows 10's new Metro app packaging. It's completely different.
For one, I'm guessing that @foosel didn't publish this on the Snapcraft store and therefore can't control the versions.
The latest release of OctoPrint is 1.3.11 so the "latest" on Snapcraft appears to be a rather old image, to be honest. As you can see from their installation help page, there's nothing really useful at all about the content:
If it were me I'd tell him to take it down. Who's to say what's in the snap? Just because it has your product name and logo, that doesn't mean that it's legitimate.
App(s): one or more applications or content items owned by you which you submit through the Developer Site and any associated screen shots and marketing materials provided by you, these may be Snappy Ubuntu apps.
Clearly, OctoPrint isn't owned by James Tigert. All he did was fork an old version of OctoPrint and create a yaml file for snapcraft.
Oh and the Snapcraft.io store is a store. They sell apps there, by the way.
That would be your best guide. If I were to guess, I don't think the average Linux-loving person will ultimately embrace a store-based style of app delivery and snaps won't endure the test of time.
