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Disabling Firefox snap permanently to use Firefox from .deb/apt

BeniBela

2/9/24, 1:21 PM

For security reasons, I run Firefox under a separate user account rather than my main account. That user is not configured to start snap programs, so if snap Firefox is installed, Firefox cannot start at all.

So I always want to use the Firefox via apt.

I have followed the steps from How to install Firefox as a traditional deb package (without snap) in Ubuntu 22.04 or later versions? to install apt Firefox. That installs Firefox from apt and it works fine.

But after every update, the snap Firefox is installed again. Then I have to uninstall the snap and install the apt version again. I want to kill it off permanently

I have done the steps from Completely remove firefox snap package (snap disable firefox && sudo snap remove --purge firefox) but they do not help and the snap keeps coming back.

Policy:

$  apt policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 110.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
  Candidate: 110.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
  Version table:
     1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
 *** 110.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1 1001
       1001 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Organic Marble

2/9/24, 1:28 PM

Do you need to preserve the ability to run any other snaps?

nobody

2/9/24, 1:47 PM

You can use apt-pinning for the ppa. Give a value over 1000.

Archisman Panigrahi

2/9/24, 2:07 PM

Did you set up the apt pin file as in this answer? https://askubuntu.com/a/1404401/124466

BeniBela

2/9/24, 2:13 PM

@ArchismanPanigrahi: I have a pin file with the first three lines "Package: * Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam Pin-Priority: 1001"

Archisman Panigrahi

2/9/24, 2:44 PM

Can you edit the question and post the output of `apt policy firefox`?

BeniBela

2/9/24, 3:00 PM

@OrganicMarble: It is probably better if it is preserved

BeniBela

2/9/24, 3:00 PM

@ArchismanPanigrahi: I added it

kanehekili

2/9/24, 10:12 PM

I have answered it [here](https://askubuntu.com/a/1403392/906933)

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