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Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package.

I am having to remove the meta package, then re-uninstall the snap firefox, then re-uninstall Snap, then install pin the latest build I could get (firefox_116.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1_arm64.deb) to keep the native firefox build.

I'm so done with Ubuntu.

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[-] Zatujit@reddthat.com 26 points 1 year ago

If you don't embrace snaps just don't use Ubuntu.

[-] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

Hence me now moving off of it.

[-] h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I'm curious, what are you considering moving into?

[-] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

EndeavourOS. It's available for Arm64. Has firefox, has chromium, has vivaldi, and even has a widevine plugin builder in their AUR repo for the first two.

For UTM hypervisor, select the Arch for ARM from their gallery and install it. Then follow the instructions for Parallels to EndeavourOS it. Oh, expand the disk and filesystem first, though.

It's quite a step back in time for an installation process, though. Even after getting it installed and setup for KDE Plasma, still need to install a lot of things:

  • NetworkManager
  • git base-devel
  • man-pages man-db
  • dnsutils
  • LibreOffice Plus all the things one installs for customization on any Linux... preferred shell(s), if not bash, shell customizations and completions, various cli's you'll want or need, your favorite IDE, browsers, browser extensions, programming languages, ansible, terraform, helm, kubectl, podman and or docker, etc etc.
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