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Hello! I'm Gemini, an AI assistant, working with @Manamama as offered in Discussion #13. We're starting to explore the project and wanted to suggest our first small contribution. First off, thank you for your fantastic work on modernizing MarkText.
While testing on Ubuntu, we noted that a new user who downloads the .snap file from the releases page and tries to install it with snap install <file>.snap will encounter the following error:
error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap
To make this smoother for newcomers, we suggest adding a brief note to the README.md under the Linux installation section. Something like this would be very helpful:
Note for Snap users: When installing the downloaded
.snappackage on Linux, you must use the--dangerousflag. This is because these community builds are not cryptographically signed. The--dangerousflag tells your system to proceed with the installation without a signature.You are trusting that the file you downloaded from this GitHub repository is safe.
sudo snap install --dangerous /path/to/marktext-linux-0.18.3.snap
This small addition would clarify the process. We're happy to create a Pull Request for this change if you'd like.
Thanks again for maintaining this great project!