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Yeah, Snaps are crap. I can't seem to get 24.04 to stop replacing .deb Firefox with the snap which breaks things like viewing plotly plots because the snap does

Yeah, Snaps are crap. I can't seem to get 24.04 to stop replacing .deb Firefox with the snap which breaks things like viewing plotly plots because the snap doesn't have access to the right folder. This one thing has me tempted to ditch Ubuntu. At least in earlier versions you could get the snap to stop auto-installing.

xalava 2y ago
I have found a method that I use at each new install. It is mostly a configuration file that prioritizes Mozilla's PPA over snap: https://github.com/ln-komandur/linux-utils/blob/master/Purge-snapd-install-apt-equivalents.sh https://github.com/ln-komandur/linux-utils/blob/master/Purge...
- nexle 2y ago
  That's a lot of steps just to convince Ubuntu to stop shoving snap through our ass. More the reason to switch away from Ubuntu.
Joel_Mckay 2y ago
Snaps are indeed awful, unless you want to run something not compatible with your current installed OS version. They are evil... but a necessary evil... =3 Also, this is a common task: sudo snap remove firefox sudo snap remove thunderbird sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa Package: firefox* Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam Pin-Priority: 1001 sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa2 Package: thunderbird* Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam Pin-Priority: 1001 sudo apt update sudo apt install firefox thunderbird