Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?
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Yeah, there's an entire page bitching about it on Linux Mint's website.
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Red Hat and Ubuntu.
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It was a collaboration, although I'm having trouble finding a source for who wanted it first.
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Yup,
apt install chromium-browsercallssnap install chromium. Looks like thunderbird is the same. There's a fwupd-snap deb but fwupd seems to be the default. -
Clearly they’re cosplaying as a Canonical engineer whose internal explanation and pleas for them to not take this approach fell upon deaf ears /j
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I.... I.... I don't know why I haven't done that myself. (Am now on NixOS btw) but for work maybe I ask for Debian cloud box.
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w3mis a proper deb
Looks like only firefox, chromium-browser and thunderbird are these dummy transitional packages. There's a
fwupd-snap, but the defaultfwupdis a full deb. -
Canonical added an epoch prefix to the firefox version number. Because that epoch (1) is higher than the implicit default (0), the official ubuntu dummy package is always considered to be a higher version than the official Mozilla package. apt doesn't look at snap packages, it installs the deb, but the ubuntu deb just runs
snap install firefoxand basically nothing else. -
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My work cannot manage permissions well so I cannot remove snap Firefox cos its in use by another user.
Meanwhile current snap version of Firefox is crashing on my profile
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And there are still other options!
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I got a notification about it when I upgraded from 20.04 LTS that they will only serve it as a snap package.
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I have a laptop that needs a proprietary wifi driver. I just "love" it when the debian net installer works out of the box, but after first boot wifi dies because the driver is missing in the installed instance
I need to find a lan cable, do some athletics to get to the router, then install the driver and only then I can connect via wifi -
