On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 3:05 PM Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > > I have been slowly transitioning some systems away from > increasingly-open-source-unfriendly Redhat derivatives > (and RPM distros) to Ubuntu 20.04.x (and APT/DEB, or so > I thought). My goal is a maximum-stable malware-free > environment, not the shiniest-latest dancing-bearware. > > Today I migrated a test machine to Ubuntu 22.04.1. > I expected all the upgrades to be DEB packages. > > Surprise! Canonical provides Firefox as a SNAP package, > their own walled-garden flavor (like RPM). I had hoped > to escape jails of that kind. > > There are many Debian and Ubuntu (and derivatives) adepts > on this list. Is there a painless way to configure Ubuntu > to use only DEB files, with alternate repositories for > Firefox and similar apps? Repositories to use, or avoid? > Well written tutorials?
I find that Firefox works best if installed directly with the FIrefox official installation. It updates itself and in general behaves better than any of the packages I have tried. It is always as up to date as possible and that is more important with browsers than most programs. Just install from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ BIll
