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by CoconutPilot 1210 days ago
LXD is only available via Ubuntu proprietary Snap packages and not native .deb packages. Native as in Ubuntu is a Debian derivative, and .deb packages are the native package for Debian.

Snap has some downsides for server/infrastructure packages. Automatic updating being the most visible, but they are generally all about lack of control. This is what Snap does, it moves the power from users to developers.
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zekrioca 1207 days ago
Not true any longer. Debian has been officially [1] supporting LXD Debian packages [2] since September last year. And you can add this APT repo [3] — which follows the same Debian recipes - into your sources.list to install LXD natively with APT.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/LXD

[2] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/lxd

[3] https://apt.calenhad.com/

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