On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 10:38 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > [snip] running kinetic this morning and executed "apt update && apt > > dist-upgrade" [snip] > > FireFox disappeared from the internet menu [snip] > > Hi, > > Firefox is not provided by the apt repositories. > > It's a "Transitional package - firefox -> firefox snap", see > https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/firefox , IOW the snap related > upgrade process is providing Firefox. > > The "bin" provided by this package actually is a script, at least the > jammy package's Firefox script starts with: > > "#!/bin/sh > if ! [ -x /snap/bin/firefox ]; then > echo "" >&2 > echo "Command '$0' requires the firefox snap to be installed." >&2 > echo "Please install it with:" >&2 > echo "" >&2 > echo "snap install firefox" >&2 > echo "" >&2 > exit 1 > fi" > > IMO the snap enforcement is the beginning of the end of Ubuntu flavours. > Fortunately my everyday Linux is the rolling release Arch Linux. Ubuntu > flavours were my long term support emergency Linux installs, but now I > try to find a long term support replacement for Ubuntu flavours. > > Snaps are an Ubuntu only thingy. Other distros provide the snap > infrastructure, but they are not supporting it. I also dislike > alternatives, such as flatpak, but those at least enjoy a minimum of > acceptance, while there's absolutely no acceptance for snaps outside of > Ubuntu flavours. > > Regards, > Ralf > > > Ralf:
Alrighty, thanks for the reply . . . the "disappearing Firefox" thing only was a problem as far as wanting a browser to search for answers to the problem of apt "hanging" in the process of updating the system . . . . On cold boot FF came back. But, the question of what happened with apt was the more important question . . . was it trying to install a too new kernel and then tried to back out of it? It was an odd episode . . . . F
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