Shell Installer Is Deprecated
The Shell Installer introduced in 1.2.x and 1.3x has been deprecated in favour of Debian Packages.
Please follow the new guide of
- Install Ubuntu Server. See here for more information
- Add Snakeoil apt repository and install Snakeoil. See here for more information
Why We Are Dropping The Shell Installer
Ubuntu releases have stopped shipping static libraries for all it's packages. This just makes building Snakeoil significantly more complex as we have to build the entire Linux toolchain from scratch. It is just impractical to do so given this is not a full time job.
Moving Forward
From 1.4.x (High End) onward Snakeoil will be built based on targeted distributions (As of Mar 2025 this means Noble Numbat). This will be expanded to support future LTS as they are released. This change should make pathway forward should be easier, in theory at least.
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