--- title: 'HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!' description: SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future.  And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the SNAP store provided by Canonical.  Developers are welcome to publish their software for […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/howto-host-your-own-snap-store?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Dustin Kirkland](https://canonical.com/blog/author/kirkland "More about Dustin Kirkland") 24 June 2016 # HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store! [Snaps](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/snaps) --- Share the article SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux [packaging format of the future](https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/06/14/universal-snap-packages-launch-on-multiple-linux-distros/).  And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the SNAP store provided by Canonical.  Developers are [welcome to publish](https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/build-apps/upload-your-snap/) their software for distribution across hundreds millions of Ubuntu servers, desktops, and devices. Several people have [asked](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4fttr9/so_is_ubuntus_new_snappy_packaging_basically_a/) the inevitable open source software [question](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2016-June/016644.html), *“SNAPs are awesome, but how can I stand up my own SNAP store?!?”* The answer is really quite simple…  *SNAP stores are really just HTTP web servers!*  Of course, you can get fancy with branding, and authentication, and certificates.  But if you just want to host SNAPs and enable downstream users to fetch and install software, well, it’s pretty trivial. In fact, [Bret Barker](https://github.com/noise) has published an open source ([Apache License](https://github.com/noise/snapstore/blob/master/LICENSE)) SNAP store on [GitHub](https://github.com/noise/snapstore/).  We’re already looking at how to flesh out his proof-of-concept and bring it into *[snapcore](https://github.com/snapcore)* itself. Here’s a little *HOWTO* install and use it. First, I launched an instance in AWS.  Of course I could have launched an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS instance, but actually, I launched a Fedora 24 instance!  In fact, you could run your SNAP store on any OS that currently supports SNAPs, really, or even just [fork this GitHub repo](https://github.com/noise/snapstore) and install it stand alone..  See [snapcraft.io](http://snapcraft.io/). Now, let’s find and install a *snapstore* SNAP.  (Note that in this AWS instance of Fedora 24, I also had to ‘sudo yum install squashfs-tools kernel-modules’. At this point, you’re running a SNAP store (webserver) on port 5000. Now, let’s reconfigure *snapd* to talk to our own SNAP store, and search for a SNAP. Finally, let’s install and inspect that SNAP.< How about that?  Easy enough! [Original article](http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/06/howto-host-your-own-snap-store.html) [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### TurtleBot3 OpenCR firmware update from a snap](https://canonical.com/blog/turtlebot3-opencr-firmware-update-from-a-snap) The TurtleBot3 robot is a standard platform robot in the ROS community, and it’s a reference that Canonical knows well, since we’ve used it in our tutorials. As a matter of... [gbeuzeboc](https://canonical.com/blog/author/gbeuzeboc) 25 September 2024 [### Space pioneers: Lonestar gears up to create a data centre on the Moon](https://canonical.com/blog/lonestar-data-centre-moon) Why establish a data centre on the Moon? Find out in our blog. [Rhys Knipe](https://canonical.com/blog/author/rhysknipe) 12 June 2024 [### Managing software in complex network environments: the Snap Store Proxy](https://canonical.com/blog/managing-software-snap-store-proxy) As enterprises grapple with the evolving landscape of security threats, the need to safeguard internal networks from the broader internet is increasingly important. In... [Holly Hall](https://canonical.com/blog/author/hollyhall) 15 January 2024 [### Cloud-native infrastructure – When the future meets the present](https://canonical.com/blog/cloud-native-infrastructure) We’ve all heard about cloud-native applications in recent years, but what about cloud-native infrastructure? Is there any reason why the infrastructure couldn’t be... [Tytus Kurek](https://canonical.com/blog/author/tkurek) 12 January 2024