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       roles:
           - rclone
 ```
+
+## Installation with snap ##
+
+### Quickstart ###
+
+  * install Snapd on your distro using the instructions below
+  * sudo snap install rclone --classic 
+  * Run `rclone config` to setup. See [rclone config docs](http://rclone.org/docs/) for more details.
+
+See below for how to install snapd if it isn't already installed
+
+#### Arch ####
+
+    sudo pacman -S snapd
+
+enable the snapd systemd service:
+
+    sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
+
+#### Debian / Ubuntu ####
+
+    sudo apt install snapd
+
+#### Fedora ####
+
+    sudo dnf copr enable zyga/snapcore
+    sudo dnf install snapd
+
+enable the snapd systemd service:
+
+    sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.service
+
+SELinux support is in beta, so currently:
+
+    sudo setenforce 0
+
+to persist, edit `/etc/selinux/config` to set `SELINUX=permissive` and reboot.
+
+#### Gentoo ####
+
+Install the [gentoo-snappy overlay](https://github.com/zyga/gentoo-snappy).
+
+#### OpenEmbedded/Yocto ####
+
+Install the [snap meta layer](https://github.com/morphis/meta-snappy/blob/master/README.md).
+
+#### openSUSE ####
+
+    sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ snappy
+    sudo zypper install snapd
+
+#### OpenWrt ####
+
+Enable the snap-openwrt feed.
diff --git a/snapcraft.yaml b/snapcraft.yaml
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@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+name: rclone
+version: 1.35
+summary: rsync for cloud storage
+description:
+  Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files.
+confinement: strict
+grade: stable
+
+apps:
+  rclone:
+    command: bin/rclone
+    plugs: [home, network, network-bind]
+
+parts:
+  rclone:
+    plugin: go
+    source: https://github.com/ncw/rclone
+    source-type: git
+    go-importpath: github.com/ncw/rclone
+    build-packages: [gcc, libgudev-1.0-dev]