ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors: now available as a snap

Great news everyone!

From now on you can easily install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors as a snap package. Read the article to learn more about it.

Snap is a universal package that is available for any Linux OS running snapd: Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Gentoo, Arch Linux, Fedora, OpenWrt, OpenEmbedded, Yocto, openSUSE, Manjaro, Solus.

What’s more, snaps work on various Linux distributions without modification, since they already contain all the necessary dependencies.

Snaps are:

• quick to install with a single command;
• easy to refresh, as the snapd system uses automatic and transactional updates;
• safe to run because they are separated from the operating system, other applications, and hardware functions.

Recently, we’ve posted a topic in the Snapcraft forum calling for testing our Desktop Editors as a snap. And this week we’ve promoted the snap to the stable channel. So now, you can easily install it from the command line, or GNOME Software. Besides, the snap is available in the Snapcraft store.

While testing, we’ve received a lot of feedback from various users including several suggestions:

On Snapcraft forum:

PDF, EPUB, DjVu – very good! May be U can add FB2 & MOBI support &… it will be offline publish system for authors.

On GitHub:

Congratulations on the beautiful work ONLYOFFICE as SNAP. I have already installed on my Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 and it is performing very well.

On Ubuntu Twitter:

Should have more fonts, design templates, Slide transition animations, animations for image/object. Lacks “Bells and chimes”…

To install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors as a snap package, just run the following command:

snap install onlyoffice-desktopeditors

So, hurry up and try the snap now to assess all its benefits! Let us know your impressions and leave your comments below. If you have any questions, visit our developers’ forum. Your feedback is very appreciated!