Alternative installation methods.
Metadata
Current evaluation
Maintainers kept snap as the official install, declined .deb/PPA packaging, and added PyPI installation instructions in merged PR #691 (43241f1e).
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: The maintainer explicitly declined .deb/PPA distribution and retained snap as the officially supported method. The requested PyPI documentation was added and merged through PR #691 in commit 43241f1e.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
Over and over again we get stuck after snaps auto-update. Snaps are a problem in many situations and we would like to discuss this situation and help move forward.
I'd like to request a .deb charmcraft for Ubuntu, that is built automatically and pushed to a PPA. This would serve as a starting point for the community to package charmcraft for other OSes and foster the ecosystem as a whole.
As a short term workaround, we could install charmcraft from PyPI, but I could not find any documentation on how to do that and get to a working state. Could you provide official docs for that?
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Maintainers kept snap as the official install, declined .deb/PPA packaging, and added PyPI installation instructions in merged PR #691 (43241f1e). | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Maintainers retained Snap as the official install method and declined .deb/PPA packaging; PyPI installation instructions were added in PR #691 (commit 43241f1e). | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Snap remained the officially supported install method and no .deb/PPA was planned, but PyPI installation instructions were added by merged PR #691. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Maintainers declined .deb/PPA packaging and retained snap as the supported install, but merged PyPI installation instructions in PR #691 (commit 43241f1e). | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Maintainers retained the snap as the supported installation method, declined a .deb/PPA, and merged PR #691 (43241f1e), adding PyPI installation instructions. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Request for a .deb package was rejected. Maintainers confirmed the snap remains the only officially supported installation method. PyPI installation documentation will be added to the README. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Rejected the .deb package request, confirming snap remains the officially supported installation method. Will add official PyPI installation instructions to the README to address the workaround. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Request for a .deb package rejected; snap remains the sole supported installation method. PyPI installation instructions will be added to the README. Issue closed. |
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Likely Fixed By:
canonical/charmcraft#691
(confidence 100%)
Merged PR adding official README instructions for installing Charmcraft from PyPI.
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