--- title: Installing Foxglove Studio is now easier than ever description: Foxglove announced the release of the Foxglove Studio snap. Discover how this tool helps you experience the world as a robot does. url: https://canonical.com/blog/installing-foxglove-studio-is-now-easier-than-ever?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Gabriel Aguiar Noury](https://canonical.com/blog/author/g-aguiar-noury "More about Gabriel Aguiar Noury") 11 July 2022 # Installing Foxglove Studio is now easier than ever [robotics](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/robotics) [ROS](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ros) [ROS2](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ros2) --- Share the article The ultimate robotics visualisation and debugging tool that you were looking for! Today, [Foxglove announced](https://foxglove.dev/blog/announcing-the-foxglove-studio-snap) the release of the [Foxglove Studio snap](https://snapcraft.io/foxglove-studio). [Foxglove Studio](https://foxglove.dev/) helps you experience the world as a robot does, providing a rich set of features to visualise data. By diversifying its distribution with a snap, Foxglove Studio is now available to millions of Linux users that can install this open-source tool with a single terminal command. ## What is Foxglove Studio? [Foxglove Studio](https://foxglove.dev/studio) is an open source visualisation and debugging tool for your robotics data. It provides a rich suite of configurable tools to quickly and easily understand what your robot is doing, either live or from recordings. [](https://ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/9d4b/Untitled.mp4) While Foxglove Studio can be used with any framework, it works really well with [ROS 1 and ROS 2](https://ubuntu.com/robotics/what-is-ros). It can inspect your robotics data via a [running ROS connection](https://foxglove.dev/docs/studio/connection/live-connection) (i.e. a live robot, simulation, etc.) or from a [recorded ROS bag file](https://foxglove.dev/docs/studio/connection/local-file). Foxglove Studio offers a suite of general-purpose tools for robotics data visualisation and debugging to serve users across different industries and with unique domain-specific needs. Get it now from the Snap Store, ## Installing Foxglove with snaps To install the Foxglove Studio desktop app, you only need the following command: ``` $ sudo snap install foxglove-studio ``` That’s it. You are ready to go. To launch the app, you can either look it up in your application launcher or just run: ``` $ foxglove-studio ``` ## Why Foxglove is using snaps Snaps bring several benefits for developers and users alike. When deploying your robotics applications as a snap, you use a production-grade packaging solution and its worldwide-used management infrastructure. Snaps allow developers to easily update bug fixes and manage new releases. If you want to try snaps for your robotics applications, [check out our tutorials](https://snapcraft.io/docs/robotics) to get started. To learn more about Foxglove Studio, check out its [documentation](https://foxglove.dev/docs/studio) and the [Foxglove blog](https://foxglove.dev/blog). [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). 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