This folder contains an experimental attempt to build a snap package for nikola.

To build, in Ubuntu 16.04:

apt install snapd snapcraft

snap login some.account@whatever.com

snapcraft

snapd install nikola*snap --devmode

To just use it:

apt install snapd snapcraft

snap login some.account@whatever.com

snap install nikola

That should leave you with a woring "nikola" command, which is functional with the

following caveats:

* Locales are broken: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1576411

* It needs to run in devmode (unconfined). I am not sure it makes much sense to

try to use it otherwise, and in any case it doesn't work for a variety of bugs.

* The -b option in nikola serve and nikola auto will not work

* Probaby other things I have not noticed yet.

export HOME=$SNAP_APP_USER_DATA

export HACKDIR=$SNAP_APP_USER_DATA

export NETHACKOPTIONS=$SNAP_APP_USER_DATA/.nethackrc

export I18NPATH=$SNAP_APP_PATH/usr/share/i18n

export LOCPATH=$SNAP_APP_USER_DATA

APPLANG=en_US

APPENC=UTF-8

APPLOC="$APPLANG.$APPENC"

if [ ! -e $SNAP_APP_USER_DATA/$APPLOC ]; then

localedef --prefix=$SNAP_APP_USER_DATA -f $APPENC -i $APPLANG $SNAP_APP_USER_DATA/$APPLOC

export LC_ALL=$APPLOC

export LANG=$APPLOC

export LANGUAGE=${APPLANG%_*}

$SNAP/usr/bin/nikola "$@"

name: nikola

version: 7.7.9

summary: A static website generator

description: A static website generator

confinement: devmode

apps:

nikola:

command: nikola.sh

parts:

nikola:

plugin: copy

files:

nikola.sh: nikola.sh

nikola-source:

plugin: python3

source: git://github.com/getnikola/nikola.git

source-tag: v7.7.9

requirements: parts/nikola-source/src/requirements-extras.txt

stage-packages:

- locales

- libc-bin

build-packages:

- zlib1g-dev

- libjpeg-turbo8-dev

- libpng12-dev

- libxslt1-dev

- libxml2-dev

- gcc