Snap and Flatpak Packages

Snaps

Debian 9 contains snapd which makes is possible to install snaps, however as of November 2017 the list of snaps available is very small, its mainly an Ubuntu core project and any snaps we make and publish will also be available to any other snap users on other platforms, who may or may not want our changes. Ubuntu folk also get to gate keep any making of snaps available to the 'stable'/'candidate' channels.

Testing of snaps on Debian 9 indicates its quite happy to install snaps but its not the best platform for their creation as it is not an actively tested development environment and throws up a few errors whilst going through the tutorials.

https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install

Flatpak

Another option is to use Flatpak which is also available in Debian 9. Flathub (https://flathub.org) contains lots of application (not all are available on Aarch64). Additionally this is the technology that Purism (https://puri.sm/) is going to be using for their phone so the gemini should be able to point to the same repo and benefit from the work that the Purism team is going.