[kwlug-disc] sadness in Ubuntu land

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

For the sake of completeness, here is my attempt to install a fresh Xubuntu
20.04 LTS.

I installed the 64bit version of that on a spare laptop.

To my surprise, I found that firefox is an apt on this fresh install:

$ dpkg -l | grep firef
ii  firefox                               99.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
   amd64        Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
ii  firefox-locale-en                     99.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
   amd64        English language pack for Firefox

And snap has not installed any packages, and could be purged safely.

$ sudo apt purge snapd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libfwupdplugin1 libllvm11 liblzo2-2 libreoffice-help-common squashfs-tools
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome-software-plugin-snap* snapd*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 147 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
...
Purging configuration files for snapd (2.54.3+20.04.1ubuntu0.2) ...
Discarding preserved snap namespaces
Final directory cleanup
Removing extra snap-confine apparmor rules
Removing snapd cache
Removing snapd state

That is in contrast with the other 18.04 -> 20.04 upgraded machines (via
do-release-upgrade),
where Firefox was switched to snap, and there were a couple of other
packages installed from
snap and they had to be removed first before purging snap and switching to
mozillateam PPA.
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