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If you want detailed information about a snap, there's also the snap info command.

The following is the output when the command is run against the lxd package:

$ snap info lxdname:      lxdsummary:   System container manager and APIpublisher: Canonical√contact:   https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issueslicense:   unsetdescription: |  LXD is a container manager for system containers.    It offers a REST API to remotely manage containers over the network, using an image based workflow  and with support for live migration.    Images are available for all Ubuntu releases and architectures as well as for a wide number of  other Linux distributions.    LXD containers are lightweight, secure by default and a great alternative to virtual machines.commands: ...