it's not a firefox issue if it's cause by unattended-upgrade closing
again
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Title:
Snap keeps uninstalling apt Firefox, and
This issue is 100% valid and caused by unattended-upgrades:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-
upgrades/+bug/2033646
Workaround:
$ echo -e 'Package: firefox\nPin: release o=Ubuntu\nPin-Priority: 1' |
sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox-workaround
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> No, that's not the intended behaviour.
Thanks for that. I apologize if I was sounding a bit cynical; I am not
very happy with this move to Snap packages for certain applications, and
it felt to me like steps were being taken to make it very difficult or
impossible to avoid it.
It turns out I
Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu*
Pin-Priority: -1
in combination with
snap disable firefox
as described in the above thread is robust for me. Holding firefox
disables updates which is not desirable.
Check man apt_preferences for the meaning of priorities:
How APT Interprets
> If this is intended behaviour, please confirm that the transitional
Firefox DEB is *always* expected to take priority and users will never
be allowed to permanently override it.
No, that's not the intended behaviour. There is no nothing special about
the firefox deb nor special handling in apt
I just registered so I can reply to this report because I am incredibly
frustrated at having to wrangle the Snap away quite frequently.
To confirm: I am having this exact issue. I've installed Firefox from
the PPA and set its priority, and yet it's not being respected by
Canonical's package, and
(I've unsubscribed, feel free to remove the bug report, you guys don't
care about bug reports anyway. Maybe this explains why snap continues to
be completely awful but you're foisting it on everyone anyway.)
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> in the dpkg sense the Ubuntu archive package version is newer than the
ppa one due to the epoch, apt is applying the standard logic of
replacing a deb package by a newer revision when available, it's the way
deb management is working.
This is not what's happening. I've tried to explain this
> What do you feel about the transitional package deinstalling Firefox
when the snap package is disabled though? Is that the expected behavior
of the transitional package?
That's not a supported scenario. The Ubuntu team maintains firefox as a
snap and the deb has been set up for things to work
> not to guarantee that the most recent version of the software is
installed but to guarantee that a specific version of the software is
pinned, without pinning it. Not cool but a bug.
it's more complicated than that. The versioning has been picked to avoid
having to re-upload the deb to keep up
@Sebastien You are right, it is perfectly legal to use Debian epochs to
override software versions. I haven't seen this much in Ubuntu
repositories, so it feels inappropriate, particularly with the software
version entirely removed. I guess the Mozilla PPA would have to roll
with this versioning
I understand how deb package management is working, however,
1:1snap1-0ubuntu3 is not a firefox version, the firefox transitional deb
package versioning schema is abusing an incompatible version number to
override the firefox version regardless what it is. This is a hack to
deliberately break
I'm not misunderstanding the situation
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1:1snap1-0ubuntu3 gt
113.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.23.04.1~mt1; echo $?
0
in the dpkg sense the Ubuntu archive package version is newer than the
ppa one due to the epoch, apt is applying the standard logic of
replacing a deb package by
The transitional package uses a versioning schema that is incompatible
with the Firefox release versioning schema, today:
1:1snap1-0ubuntu3
vs
113.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.23.04.1~mt1
which makes apt believe that 1:1snap1-0ubuntu3 is a more recent build
than 113.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.23.04.1~mt1
> the issue is that people install a firefox deb which is older than the
one provided by Ubuntu
Again, this is not true. If it were true, then "apt-get install firefox"
after uninstalling the Ubuntu Snap loading version, would REINSTALL THE
UBUNTU SNAP LOADING VERSION, not the version from
Again, nothing is doing weird things there, the issue is that people
install a firefox deb which is older than the one provided by Ubuntu.
You can't expect to install older debs and expect them to stick, that's
not how apt works and nothing new and not specifics to snaps or firefox
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> I've actually disabled most of the automatic update tools in one way
or another
To clarify, yes, this "fixed" it, but obviously "Go and find anything
that does updates and cripple it" can't be the solution.
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snap info firefox reports this (currently it isn't installed and
shouldn't be):
name: firefox
summary: Mozilla Firefox web browser
publisher: Mozillaâś“
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/firefox
contact:
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla
license:
There is technical reason why we need the transitional deb. You have
options if you are set on not using the firefox version Ubuntu is
officially supporting, apt pinning is one. Installing from the upstream
tar instead of an official ppa is another one...
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If you intercept snap as described above by
sudo snap disable firefox
sudo snap remove firefox
and add the Mozilla PPA for Firefox, then the Ubuntu deb package will
remove the Mozilla Firefox version without being able to install the
snap version because that was disabled. The result is
Ok, let's try to figure thing out. Please uninstall the snap, install
the deb and next time the snap is installed back please share the output
of
1.
$ snap info firefox
2. the corresponding journal log ('-b 0' is the current system log, if you
restarted since the snap refresh date from .1 then
I mean, I literally cut and pasted what apt-get does in my bug report,
how the hell did you conclude from that it's not "snapd or the system"
and that it's a version number issue from that?
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> Indeed, the process for fixing this
I should stress that by this I mean "the process for temporarily fixing
this". The system will still install the unwanted Snap version in the
background at a later date.
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> if you remove the snap, it's not being installed back by snapd or the
system
This is clearly untrue.
> - the issue there is that users do install a firefox deb version which
is older than the 1:1snap version from the archive. Apt does what is the
standard behavior next time you install
Details of why that's not a bug
- Ubuntu decided to default to firefox as a snap and turned the deb to
an 'utility' package providing some of the system gluing and installing
the snap. The package uses a '1:1snap' version version '1:' is an Debian
epoch (which means that version is going to be
Can you maybe further expand on how this is "does not appear to be a
bug" because I cannot fathom any set of circumstances in which "Someone
has intentionally removed a program, let's re-install it even though
they've explicitly stated they don't want it" is NOT a bug.
This is absurd. How is it
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does
not appear to be a bug in the package. We understand the difficulties
you are facing, but it is better to raise problems you are having in the
support
hi fellow ubuntu firefox users,
it happened again and I see no harm in bumping this issue so here we are
:)
I already had a pref file for firefox without any real impact as far as
I can see. I re-run the command "snap disable firefox" and changed from
"Pin-Priority: -10" to "Pin-Priority: -1" as
I am having the same problem, but I prevented snap from updating firefox with
```
snap refresh --hold firefox
```
Since Ubuntu's transitional deb package does not understand my snap
preferences, it now simply *uninstalls* the firefox deb package, and I have to
manually update it with
```
sudo
sneaky snap installation of firefox hit me again right now :)
i just want to bump this bug report (pls fix, oh might canonical ! uWu)
and report that mario's procedure (sudo apt remove firefox && sudo apt
install firefox) works for me, also.
cheers & i y'all a good week
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It happen to me to.
I also removed snap as it doesn't support SSO i use in my daily work.
My /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa:
Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 501:
So after each removal, i simply do:
sudo apt remove firefox && sudo apt install firefox, but
I'm having the same problem on my work provided Ubuntu system and this
behavior alone would have let me switched OS if I'd be allowed to. I
exaggerate a bit :)
I would like to ask You to provide a possibility to disable or exclude
firefox as snap for good.
For now I check for the installation
I'm having the same problem (on multiple systems).
I've remove'd firefox as a snap nut the snap still gets installed at
some later point (when a new one is available?) despite the fact that my
apt preferences are set to use the mozillateam-ubuntu-ppa-kinetic PPA.
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Happened again today. Again, was anything pushed last night that might
have triggered this?
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Title:
Snap keeps uninstalling apt
This happened again this morning. Before uninstalling the snap, I typed
apt policy firefox which reported:
firefox:
Installed: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 108.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
Version table:
*** 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Thanks for your clarification/confirmation that you have the
transitional package available to install but it's currently not
installed.
So without the snap or transitional package installed to install the
snap you see the snap being installed and/or updated. Strange.
I'm leaving this for the
Also, in case it helps:
$ dpkg -l firefox*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
The output of apt policy firefox on my system is:
firefox:
Installed: 108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
Candidate: 108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
Version table:
1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
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My recent comment appears to have been lost so I'll repeat by saying
that
$ apt policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
on my laptops show the existence of a transitional package that installs
a snap version of Firefox. I understand that the
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Title:
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