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 Priorities
Priorities (P) assigned in the APT preferences file must be positive or
negative
integers. They are interpreted as follows (roughly speaking):
P >= 1000
causes a version to be installed even if this constitutes a
downgrade of the package
990 <= P < 1000
causes a version to be installed even if it does not come from the
target release,
unless the installed version is more recent
500 <= P < 990
causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available
belonging to
the target release or the installed version is more recent
100 <= P < 500
causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available
belonging to
some other distribution or the installed version is more recent
0 < P < 100
causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed
version of the
package
P < 0
prevents the version from being installed
P = 0
has undefined behaviour, do not use it.
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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:
Invalid
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]
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openprinting✓ -
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canonical✓ -
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latest/stable/… canonical✓ -
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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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