[tde-users] Re: skype only with SNAP (off-topic)

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:52:53 -0800 (PST) Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:

Is there a way to extract files from the SNAP archive?

It looks like SNAPs may use squashfs internally. Or at least, some Gentoo overlay ebuilds use that method to unpack the SNAP for recent versions of Skype. It's worth a try, anyway.

The URLs used to fetch the raw SNAP file are ugly:

# fetch snap dl url from: # curl -H 'Snap-Device-Series: 16' http://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/info/skype # "url": "https://api.snapcraft.io/api/v1/snaps/download/QRDEfjn4WJYnm0FzDKwqqRZZI77aw..." # }, # "revision": 333, => patch level (_p) # "version": "8.114.0.214" => version

Hope that helps a bit.

E. Liddell