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Installing via Snap packages
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A snap is a zip file containing an application together with its dependencies,
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and a description of how it should safely be run on your system, especially
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the different ways it should talk to other software. Most importantly snaps are
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designed to be secure, sandboxed, containerized applications isolated from the
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underlying system and from other applications.
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Nextcloud snap is a community driven installation method and is designed
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to be easy to install and simple to maintain.
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Nextcloud snap is designed to be easy to install and simple to maintain.
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The ideal Nextcloud snap is an "install and forget" Nextcloud instance
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that works on most architectures and updates itself without needing administrative
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skills. Combining Nextcloud with snapd makes it a perfect fit for IoT or
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scalable environments. `Snapd <https://snapcraft.io/docs>`_ is a secure
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and robust technology which the Nextcloud snap team has embraced.
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Most importantly snaps are designed to be secure, sandboxed, containerized
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applications isolated from the underlying system and from other applications.
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Installation
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**On Ubuntu**
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* https://snapcraft.io/nextcloud
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* Install Nextcloud ``sudo snap install nextcloud``
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**All other distros**
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`be warned <https://github.com/nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Why-Ubuntu-is-the-only-supported-distro/>`_
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To install the Nextcloud Snap Package, run the following command in a terminal::
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By default the latest stable Nextcloud snap release will be installed and it will automatically update to
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subsequent stable releases, but there are `other releases available as well <https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Release-strategy>`_
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and you have full control of `automatic updates <https://github.com/nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Managing-automatic-updates>`_.
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sudo snap install nextcloud
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Further documentation, an `extensive Wiki <https://github.com/nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap/wiki>`_ and `FAQ's <https://github.com/nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap/wiki/FAQ's>`_ can be found on the `developers GitHub <https://github.com/nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap>`_.
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.. note:: The `snapd technology <http://snapcraft.io/docs/core/>`_ is the core
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that powers snaps, and it offers a new way to package, distribute, update and

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