Recently moved to linux (Manjaro/Arch) and needed to decide between Snap, official binaries, pacman…
Noted the Snap wasn’t latest version, so went with pacman install which gave latest v1.2 Not sure if I would have had the Arpack build issues (described here Resolved: Arpack deps.jl Linux build issue) with Snap or binaries.
Another thing that is a bit confusing (or just new and something else to understand) is the appearance of all the “loops” in the form /dev/loopXXX in my mount list:
df -aTh | more
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop1 squashfs 55M 55M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/1223
/dev/loop0 squashfs 43M 43M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snap-store/201
/dev/loop3 squashfs 147M 147M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/slack/18
/dev/loop5 squashfs 55M 55M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/1265
/dev/loop4 squashfs 20M 20M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/node/2494
/dev/loop2 squashfs 90M 90M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/7917
/dev/loop7 squashfs 8.2M 8.2M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/evince/214
/dev/loop11 squashfs 25M 25M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/heroku/3848
/dev/loop10 squashfs 23M 23M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/4992
/dev/loop12 squashfs 68M 68M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/sublime-text/77
/dev/loop13 squashfs 145M 145M 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/slack/19
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