Hello, friends! I made something that might be useful for Ubuntu users who rely on snaps. It scans snaps for vulnerabilities. It’s called SnapScope, and you can see it at
It scans any snap package you specify that is publicly available on the Snap Store. Each snap has a page where you can view the previously scanned revisions and results.
I made a 5-minute video to show you around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hB2Z2xI5vY
Feedback and suggestions welcome!
I personally hate SNAPs, but love the concept and intent!
If this kind of tool wasn’t already out there (which blows my mind, given the push and resources promoting/implementing SNAP-based solutions), I thank you for taking this initiative and commend you for stepping forward in your attempts to serve the Community.
I hope it turns out very well … enough to garner some official support, and maybe some funding, that could turn it into a cornerstone of the SNAP-based eco-system.
Well-done!
I might like to try this out.
I have some older snaps that I am not sure what to do with. They might be old for a reason, or maybe not. I took a quick pic of them here:
Is there any way to take an inventory of installed snaps, and then compare to current, to make sure nothing is missing or broken?
Thank you!
That’s cool. I maintain a snap but have never gotten those (monthly?) warnings about potentially vulnerabilities. So at least this tells me there’s no known issues.
To see currently-installed snaps:
snap list
To ensure that they’re all up to date:
sudo snap refresh
@popey — Alan, that’s marvellous, thank you! I second the hope that this becomes an official addition to the Ubuntu family.
By the way, maybe add the video link to the SnapScope home page?
Great idea @paddylandau - I added an About page.
Snaps do quietly refresh themselves in the background if there is anything new published by the maintainer, they check 4 times per day for updates and install any new revision automatically, there is nothing you need to do unless you turned off these automatic checks …
See:
Yeah, I’ve done that. Some of the ones I have just looked old in pic above, so I thought maybe they got missed or skipped over. Thank you.
Yeah, I don’t recall ever “putting a snap on hold”. But this is a good and useful link.