[kwlug-disc] sadness in Ubuntu land

[Doug Moen]

There is a way to prevent Ubuntu from reinstalling the Firefox snap. I haven't tried it, but I've seen multiple explanations on the web about how to do it. Here's one:
https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/09/remove-firefox-snap-ubuntu/

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022, at 8:05 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> So, fresh from my recent encounter with DuckDuckGo, I hobbled along and decided to try testing out the newest version of Ubuntu in a VM.
> 
> Everything went well until I decided to remove the Snap version of Firefox that comes standard now, and replace it with the regular apt-installed version, as recommended in one of the many online "things to do after installing Ubuntu 22.04" articles.  And as recommended here in this group as I know many of you don't like Snaps. And also recommended by the fact that the snap version of Firefox doesn't get along with GNOME extensions, which I use extensively.
> 
> So did the following:
> 
> sudo snap remove --purge firefox
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
> sudo apt install -t 'o=LP-PPA-mozillateam' firefox
> 
> This worked well, until I tried to run updates.  Apt updates forcibly (as in, you can't stop it once it starts) removes the apt version of Firefox and replaces it with the original Snap version.  The popup TUI basically said that from now on I must use the Snap version.  You can imagine the new words I invented when I saw that message come up...
> 
> So.... what to do?   I've been an Ubuntu fan for many years, but this latest move by Canonical really bakes my cookies.  Should I move over to Fedora or some other distro that doesn't force their views on us?
> 
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