Published on the Snap Store

[mharjac]

I've published termshark on the Snap store so it can be easily installed on almost all major distros just by issuing: snap install termshark
After installation, it requires some additional permissions:

snap connect termshark:network-control
snap connect termshark:bluetooth-control
snap connect termshark:firewall-control
snap connect termshark:ppp
snap connect termshark:raw-usb
snap connect termshark:removable-media

[pocc]

Cheers @mharjac! Thanks for your work on this.

[gcla]

I'm new to snap and just tried it out - thanks @mharjac :-)

Just to be sure - I think it's the case that snap doesn't yet support filesystem capabilities, is that your understanding too? i.e. I was able to run the snap termshark like this

$ sudo termshark -i eth0

but not as an unprivileged user. Turned up this link by googling: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/wireshark-and-setcap/9629

I'm on Ubuntu 18.10 at the moment.

One other very minor thing, and this is my fault - when it runs, it displays v<localbuild> at the top. I should've built the version in from the beginning :-/ If it's an easy thing to rebuild, you can get the current version in by compiling like this

$ go install -ldflags="-X github.com/gcla/termshark.Version=1.0.0" ./... 

But not a big deal! Thanks for the work.

[gcla]

oh, I'll update the README, can I add your name to it?

[mharjac]

Just to be sure - I think it's the case that snap doesn't yet support filesystem capabilities, is that your understanding too?

Yes, you're right. Currently it isn't possible to execute it without root privileges.

One other very minor thing, and this is my fault - when it runs, it displays v<localbuild> at the top. I should've built the version in from the beginning :-/ If it's an easy thing to rebuild, you can get the current version in by compiling like this

Don't worry about that, it's just minor visual defect :) I've removed source-tag option from snapcraft.yaml, so from now on your every commit should trigger automatic rebuild and publish it to the edge channel and I would manually promote every stable release to the stable channel.

[mharjac]

oh, I'll update the README, can I add your name to it?

Yeah, you have my permission :)

[tkisason]

awesome! 👍

[gcla]

Hi @mharjac - would it be possible for you to update the snap package to v2.0.2? Many thanks!

[mharjac]

Hi @mharjac - would it be possible for you to update the snap package to v2.0.2? Many thanks!

Hey! I've tried to build new snap but it failed with the following errors while building app:

github.com/gcla/tail/tail.go:188:45: cannot use &tail.Tomb (type *"github.com/gcla/tail/vendor/gopkg.in/tomb.v1".Tomb) as type *"github.com/hpcloud/tail/vendor/gopkg.in/tomb.v1".Tomb in argument to tail.watcher.BlockUntilExists

github.com/gcla/tail/tail.go:327:49: cannot use &tail.Tomb (type *"github.com/gcla/tail/vendor/gopkg.in/tomb.v1".Tomb) as type *"github.com/hpcloud/tail/vendor/gopkg.in/tomb.v1".Tomb in argument to tail.watcher.ChangeEvents

[gcla]

I think I've messed up the tags... Could you try the following:

export GO111MODULE=on
go install github.com/gcla/termshark/v2/cmd/termshark

Then try ~/go/bin/termshark -v ?

Thanks :)

[gcla]

Sorry to pester you @mharjac - any luck with the snap? A couple of redditors were trying to install that way.

[mharjac]

Unfortunately, not. As it seems, snapcraft's go plugin doesn't support go modules so I'm trying to override that.

[mharjac]

Finally... 2.0.2 released in stable channel.

[gcla]

Many thanks @mharjac!