removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?
Jeffrey Walton
noloader at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 23:49:56 UTC 2023
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 4:46 PM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>
> >There's only one thing you need to do. Cancel the original mistake to
> >introduce snaps. Go back to plain deb packages and you are done, no
> >workarounds or "bug fixes" are required, by just dropping this
> >idiotic idea that does cause that many issues to no avail at all.
>
> I don't think they can. Firefox needs very frequent updates and that
> would apparently be difficult (impossible?) to do while
> conforming with the SRU policy, probably because of all the hoops
> that would have to be jumped through for each update:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
>
> It seems that Mozilla also asked Canonical to do it:
>
> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/09/ubuntu-makes-firefox-snap-default
>
> The best we can hope for is that they will work out the kinks in Snap
> to make it a better experience.
Works for me. No Snap required:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozillateam-ubuntu-ppa-jammy.list
deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu/ jammy main
# deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu/ jammy main
Jeff
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