# 1.6. Installation via Snap

Apache CouchDB provides ‘convenience binary’ Snap builds through the Ubuntu snapcraft repository under the name `couchdb`. Only snaps built from official stable CouchDB releases (`2.0`, `2.1`, etc.) are available through this channel. There are separate snap channels for each major release stream, e.g. `2.x`, `3.x`, as well as a `latest` stream.

After installing snapd, the CouchDB snap can be installed via:

    $ sudo snap install couchdb

CouchDB will be installed at `/snap/couchdb`. Data will be stored at `/var/snap/couchdb/`.

Please note that all other file system paths are relative to the snap `chroot` instead of the system root. In addition, the exact path depends on your system. For example, when you normally want to reference /opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini, under snap, this could live at /snap/couchdb/5/opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini.

Your installation is not complete. Be sure to complete the Setup steps for a single node or clustered installation.

Further details on the snap build process are available in our couchdb-pkg git repository.