diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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+dist: trusty
+language: c
+script: ./run-checks
diff --git a/run-checks b/run-checks
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+#!/bin/sh
+export LANG=C.UTF-8
+export LANGUAGE=en
+set -eu
+
+TMP_SPREAD="$(mktemp -d)"
+trap 'rm -rf "$TMP_SPREAD"' EXIT
+
+export PATH=$TMP_SPREAD:$PATH
+( cd "$TMP_SPREAD" && curl -s -O https://niemeyer.s3.amazonaws.com/spread-amd64.tar.gz && tar xzvf spread-amd64.tar.gz )
+
+spread -v
diff --git a/spread-tests/basics/task.yaml b/spread-tests/basics/task.yaml
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+summary: Check that ubuntu-core-launcher executes correctly
+execute: |
+    echo "ubuntu-core-launcher is installed and responds to --help"
+    ubuntu-core-launcher --help 2>&1 | grep -F -q 'Usage: ubuntu-core-launcher <security-tag> <binary>'
diff --git a/spread.yaml b/spread.yaml
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+project: snap-confine
+
+environment:
+    REUSE_PROJECT: $(echo $REUSE_PROJECT)
+
+backends:
+    linode:
+        key: $(echo $SPREAD_LINODE_KEY)
+        systems:
+            - ubuntu-16.04-64-grub
+            - debian-8
+
+path: /remote/path/
+
+exclude:
+    - .git
+
+prepare: |
+    echo "Spread is running as $(id)"
+    [ "$REUSE_PROJECT" != 1 ] || exit 0
+    release_ID="$( . /etc/os-release && echo "${ID:-linux}" )"
+
+    case $release_ID in
+        ubuntu)
+            # apt update is hanging on security.ubuntu.com with IPv6.
+            sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
+            trap "sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0" EXIT
+            ;;
+        debian)
+            ;;
+    esac
+    case $release_ID in
+        ubuntu|debian)
+            apt-get purge -y snap-confine || true
+            apt-get update
+            apt-get install --quiet -y fakeroot
+            apt-get install --quiet -y autoconf automake autotools-dev debhelper dh-apparmor dh-autoreconf indent libapparmor-dev libseccomp-dev libudev-dev pkg-config shellcheck udev
+            test -d /home/test || adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos '' test
+            chown test.test -R ..
+            sudo -i -u test /bin/sh -c "cd $PWD && DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck dpkg-buildpackage -tc -b -Zgzip"
+            dpkg -i ../snap-confine_*.deb || apt-get -f install -y
+            dpkg -i ../ubuntu-core-launcher_*.deb || apt-get -f install -y
+            rm -f ../snap-confine_*.deb ../ubuntu-core-launcher_*.deb
+            ;;
+    esac
+suites:
+    spread-tests/:
+        summary: Full-system tests for snap-confine