upgrading to 22.04 kills firefox

[teruble4]

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On Sunday, April 16th, 2023 at 3:14 PM, Bob <accessys at smart.net> wrote:


> Catch 22, can't run Wine even if I wanted to as it is not loaded and would
> have to be downloaded from internet, which is problem because I can't link
> to internet!
> 
> 
> why would I want to mess with Wine I run Linux because I don't like
> anything Windows, why won't it run natively and if not Firefox something
> else.
> problem is I can't download anything because it won't link to internet, I
> would downgrade to 20.04 which I know works first.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, teruble4 wrote:
> 
> > You could install Wine and run a Windows version if you rally want it.
> > 
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> > On Sunday, April 16th, 2023 at 1:41 PM, Bob accessys at smart.net wrote:
> > 
> > > spent good part of yesterday doing a clean install.
> > > get same results.
> > > but watched the loading results closely
> > > 
> > > hung up at "waiting for autorestart of snapd"
> > > 
> > > it never did autorestart. said check path??
> > > 
> > > what path. don't even know where to look.
> > > firefox is installed and loads with good expected screen BUT unable to
> > > make connection with internet or server. although this computer using
> > > different version of kubuntu has no trouble. would think the Kubuntu
> > > team would have a second server installed (such as midori) or something so
> > > linking to internet would be possible to get whatever is needed.
> > > 
> > > ????? ready to throw hands up and reload 20.04 without long term support
> > > but at least it works, can't even make a bug report.
> > > 
> > > Bob
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, c_smith9202 wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Looks like it's pretty borked. Might be easier to just do a clean install. Make sure to
> > > > back things up
> > > > 
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> > > > On Apr 13, 2023, 7:57 AM, Bob < accessys at smart.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > one of my first tries. get a failure from knosole that it cannot access the
> > > > internet to get it?? it is a hard wired link to router, as is this laptop
> > > > going thru same router and modem. dern thing had to have internet access just
> > > > to install all the packages etc that were part of the install. bitorent
> > > > "appears" to be only thing that can get to internet and I am not comfortable
> > > > using bitorent. a search can't find snap or firefox. never run into this
> > > > before Bob On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, c_smith9202 wrote: > You should be able to
> > > > ruin "sudo apt install firefox" from a Konsole to get it back. Be > warned:
> > > > it'll install the snap version. The package installed by apt is a stub and
> > > > it's > just a script that installed the snap version on installation > > >
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> > > > Apr 13, 2023, 7:44 AM, Bob < accessys at smart.net> wrote: > > been using Kubuntu
> > > > for many years and decided to upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 > and got a new
> > > > blank hard drive downloaded (on different computer) a live DVD > and started
> > > > the install, everything went as expected until I rebooted at the > end and
> > > > firefox was missing. in fact any access to the internet was missing. > have
> > > > heard "things" about "snap" but my first experience with it that I know > of.
> > > > but have a fully functional, 22.04LTS on my new hard drive with no access > to
> > > > the internet via any means. anyone got a workaround. tried to download it > to
> > > > the harddrive from the web via the live DVD but it wouldn't write to the >
> > > > hard drive, and when I finally did get it written a reboot failed to load it.
> > > > 
> > > > > (tried midori with same results) hard to download something from web if one
> > > > > cannot access the web ???? thanks Bob PS this is via my laptop running older
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