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Snap install requires --dangerous flag

See original GitHub issue

Installs fine, but there is some metadata missing that triggers an error and needs to be bypassed with --dangerous:

$ snap version                                                                       
snap    2.21-2+b1
snapd   2.21-2+b1
series  16
debian  9

$ snap install /home/lidel/tmp/ipfs-desktop_0.6.0_amd64.snap                         
error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap "/home/lidel/tmp/ipfs-desktop_0.6.0_


$ snap install --dangerous /home/lidel/tmp/ipfs-desktop_0.6.0_amd64.snap
ipfs-desktop 0.6.0 installed

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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hacdiascommented, Oct 2, 2019

@lidel I did try to install on Ubuntu and it seemed to work well too!

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lidelcommented, Oct 2, 2019

@hacdias sgtm! https://snapcraft.io/ipfs-desktop looks good

I don’t use Snap myself, but see @elopio created one for go-ipfs (https://snapcraft.io/ipfs). @elopio – are you able to check if ipfs-desktop installs fine via snap install ipfs-desktop?

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