<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>On Sun, Apr 24, 2022, at 00:23, Chris Frey wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have<br></div><div>requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable<br></div><div>distribution that some required packages have not yet been created<br></div><div>or been moved out of Incoming.<br></div><div>The following information may help to resolve the situation:<br></div><div><br></div><div>The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br></div><div>firefox : PreDepends: snapd but it is not going to be installed<br></div><div>E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It may be as simple as Ubuntu's (snap-installing) deb has a slightly higher version that the one from the third-party repo, rather than a malicious modification to apt itself. You should be able to use apt pinning to say `firefox` should only be installed from a specific repo. This might also prevent the dependency warning message.<br></div><div><br></div><div> A mocked-up /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateam:<br></div><div><br></div><div> Package: firefox<br></div><div> Pin release o=mozillateam<br></div><div> Pin-Priority: -10<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, I don't actually have an Ubuntu machine to test, so you may need to adjust that. I got this from the following URLs:<br></div><div><br></div><div> 1. <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/449426/pinning-package-using-own-repository-and-apt-get">https://askubuntu.com/questions/449426/pinning-package-using-own-repository-and-apt-get</a><br></div><div> 2. <a href="https://linux.die.net/man/5/apt_preferences">https://linux.die.net/man/5/apt_preferences</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you're looking for alternative distros, Fedora is nice. I switched from Ubuntu about 10 years ago now, and have been very happy.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If you're just trying to avoid the startup issues associated with snap, the flatpak firefox from flathub works well. It's provided by Mozilla, and is indistinguishable from the native firefox. I have it installed for troubleshooting and honestly have few issues with it.<br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig91988184"><div class="signature">-- <br></div><div class="signature"><b>Chris Irwin</b><br></div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">email: chris@chrisirwin.ca</span><br></div><div class="signature"><span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"> web: <a href="https://chrisirwin.ca">https://chrisirwin.ca</a></span><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>