Evidently it is possible to install Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from the Mozilla PPA instead of using the snap.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1399383/how-to-install-firefox-as-a-traditional-deb-package-without-snap-in-ubuntu-22 - Marc On Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 7:14:47 AM UTC-5 Marc Culler wrote: > Actually the firefox snap can access files on the local disk, but only if > they are in the user's home directory. It cannot access files in /tmp. > Does the plot viewer use the ubuntu system's /tmp? > > - Marc > On Monday, April 1, 2024 at 2:31:44 PM UTC-5 Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > >> I just had to install Sage on a Windows machine (long story…) which has >> to be connected to a corporate VPN, whose an annoying side effect is to >> deprive Linux apps of network connectivity (don’t get me started…). >> Therefore, the Linux browser couldn’t use Mathjax. >> >> Using your utilities works perfectly. I checked that one can display both >> 2D and 3D graphics from both commandine and Jupyter/Jupyterlab notebooks. >> >> BTW, does your son run Ubuntu 22.04 ? If so, it might explain why display >> is problematic : this distribution uses a “snap” version of firefox, which >> asininely insists to run in its own sandbox, *with no access to local >> files :* (‘Grrrr…). >> >> HTH, >> >> Le lundi 4 mars 2024 à 23:23:17 UTC+1, kcrisman a écrit : >> >>> Has anyone successfully used the instructions at >>> https://wiki.sagemath.org/SageWindows lately for plots? I'm reviewing >>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/37184 and it would be nice to >>> have that information actually in the installation guide, but for some >>> reason it didn't work for me. (Maybe because it's my son's computer ... >>> some sort of Murphy's Law?) >>> >>> Thanks for any info. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/49e06dad-ddf4-47fe-ac62-aceeb215f752n%40googlegroups.com.
