Hello folks,

Following up on a post over on the dev list this morning I got around to
publishing some snap packages for Tika that I've been tinkering with for a
couple of months.

For those(most) of you who don't know about Snap packages, they allow
applications to run confined from one another offering greater security
over traditional package formats, similarly they allow automated upgrades
and rollbacks to newer versions. Lastly, they are supported (to various
degrees of usefulness) on a few different platforms including Ubuntu,
Debian, Centos, Fedora and a few others which obviously makes cross
platform deployments a bit easier.

Anyway with that out of the way, those of you who use Ubuntu Xenial or
later can do

sudo apt install snapd

followed by

sudo snap install tika-server
or
sudo snap install tika-app

because I've just been using them for some internal stuff I've not yet got
around to plugging them into extra applications which will require some
tinkering to allow communications across different applications but if
people have questions, comments or suggestions I'd be happy to hear them.

Tom

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