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| author | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2018-04-30 15:25:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Andrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com> | 2018-04-30 15:25:51 -0400 |
| commit | 6ffb4b7466c914a2683847b5fb4e30ea16749e94 (patch) | |
| tree | 3901583722cbf0362f605777399446353f2ce079 /README.md | |
| parent | 198d1fede962814efbb2cc4883659c29492a2048 (diff) | |
doc: go away snap
Snap has caused a number of nonsensical bug reports, and not even the
`--classic` flag seems capable of fixing them. Therefore, remove snap
from the README and put in a special line in the ISSUE_TEMPLATE about
snap.
FIxes #902
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 15 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -265,17 +265,10 @@ $ curl -LO https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/0.8.1/ripgrep $ sudo dpkg -i ripgrep_0.8.1_amd64.deb ``` -If you're an **Ubuntu** user, ripgrep can be installed from the `snap` store. - -* Note that if you are using `16.04 LTS` or later, snap is already installed. -* For older versions you can install snap using - [this guide](https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install-ubuntu). - -For the latest stable release: - -``` -$ sudo snap install --classic rg -``` +(N.B. Various snaps for ripgrep on Ubuntu are also available, but none of them +seem to work right and generate a number of very strange bug reports that I +don't know how to fix and don't have the time to fix. Therefore, it is no +longer a recommended installation option.) If you're a **Rust programmer**, ripgrep can be installed with `cargo`. * Note that the minimum supported version of Rust for ripgrep is **1.20**, |