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 jammy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
108.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1 1001
1001 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main
amd64 Packages
So note, from 'Candidate', it knows it wasn't supposed to install the
snap, but did anyway for some reason and the 'snap' version had been
installed. After 'snap remove --purge firefox' and 'apt-get remove
firefox' followed by 'apt-get install firefox', apt policy firefox is
now showing:
firefox:
Installed: 108.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
Candidate: 108.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
Version table:
1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
*** 108.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1 1001
1001 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main
amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
As far as I'm aware nothing happened this morning (or last night - I'm
checking every morning) to cause Firefox to install. I didn't run any
updates, Software Updater did not come up.
It feels as if there's a cron job installed in the system somewhere that
forcibly installs the snap version, but I have absolutely no clue what
that would be because root's is empty, and none of the /etc/cron*
scripts appear to be related to this.
Was anything pushed last night that might have triggered this?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1999308
Title:
Snap keeps uninstalling apt Firefox, and reinstalling snap Firefox
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I have looked on various forums including the search features of
Launchpad, help.ubuntu..com, and Google for answers on this but not been
able to.
I have uninstalled the snap of firefox multiple times, installing the real
Firefox from ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu/, only for a
few days later (once hours later) for snap to uninstall the real thing and
install its snap version instead.
I have tried a basic
sudo snap remove firefox
and when that didn't work
sudo snap disable firefox
sudo snap remove --purget firefox
The former should be enough - that's a direct expression of my preferences,
some thing like "You should have typed sudo snap remove --do-not-reinstall
--disable-auto-ignore-preferences firefox" would not resolve this bug.
When installing using apt-get, the correct version is being installed, and
snap afterwards does not show the presence of firefox:
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64
xul-ext-ubufox all 3.4-0ubuntu1.17.10.1 [3,320 B]
Get:2 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main
amd64 firefox-locale-en amd64 108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1 [831 kB]
Get:3 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main
amd64 firefox amd64 108.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1 [64.9 MB]
Name Version Rev Tracking
Publisher Notes
authy 2.2.2 12 latest/stable
twilio-authy -
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable
canonical✓ base
chromium 108.0.5359.94 2238 latest/stable
canonical✓ -
code 5235c6bb 114 latest/stable
vscode✓ classic
core 16-2.57.6 14399 latest/stable
canonical✓ core
core18 20221103 2632 latest/stable
canonical✓ base
core20 20221123 1738 latest/stable
canonical✓ base
cups 2.4.2-4 836 latest/stable
openprinting✓ -
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 161 latest/stable
canonical✓ -
gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.6f39565 119 latest/stable
canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535
latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
onlyoffice-desktopeditors 7.2.1 133 latest/stable
onlyoffice✓ -
snap-store 41.3-66-gfe1e325 638
latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
snapd 2.57.6 17883 latest/stable
canonical✓ snapd
/var/lib/snapd/seed/snaps contains (once firefox is removed):
core18_1880.snap gnome-3-34-1804_36.snap gtk-common-themes_1506.snap
snapd_8542.snap snap-store_467.snap
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/10/prevent-installing-firefox-snap-ubuntu-mate-21-10/
claims that a similar issue affects Ubuntu MATE 21.04 and the solution was
to type "sudo apt-mark manual firefox", which I have done, but that has not
resolved the problem.
I'm not here to explain why I wouldn't want the snap version, it is clearly
a bug for snap to accept a command to uninstall something and then
automatically reinstall it days later without the permission of the user,
and especially galling that it removes the real version at the same time.
I have lost data (passwords and history) because of this bug, because one
of the many faults of the snap version is that it ignores the user's real
~/.mozilla profile and creates a shadow profile instead inside of the snap
system.
Please disable this behavior. It's obnoxious, it ignores EXPLICITY stated
user preferences, and it causes the loss of data.
I am unclear on what package is causing the behavior so for now marking it
against Firefox, but it could be against some other piece of infrastructure
related to snap:
affects ubuntu/firefox
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