In Ubuntu 22.04 I have firefox 115.0.2 (the last version to date AFAIK) installed by default via snap (which firefox returns "/snap/bin/firefox").
Yet, when I try to use apt to do a dist-upgrade (sudo apt dist-upgrade) it wants to install firefox as a NEW package (not an upgrade).
I canceled the apt command as I don't understand why this behavior. Does anyone known why apt is proposing a new install ? Is it safe to proceed ?
Thank you for your help
ltdm
List of the outputs asked by Raffa (thanks to him), sorry it is auto translated from French, but should be easy to understand:
$ sudo apt update
Reached:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Reached:2 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Reached:3 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Reached:4 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building the dependency tree... Done
Reading status information... Done
35 packages can be updated. Run “apt list --upgradable” to see them.
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building the dependency tree... Done
Reading status information... Done
Calculating the update... Done
The following packages were installed automatically and are no longer needed:
fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-extra
Please use "sudo apt autoremove" to remove them.
Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled:
libpostproc55 libavcodec58 libavutil56 libswscale5 libswresample3
libavformat58 libavfilter7
Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro
An OpenSSL vulnerability has recently been fixed with USN-6188-1 & 6119-1:
CVE-2023-2650: possible DoS translating ASN.1 object identifiers.
Ensure you have updated the package to its latest version.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox
The following packages have been retained:
gjs libgjs0g
The following packages will be updated:
alsa-ucm-conf gir1.2-adw-1 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 gir1.2-mutter-10 gnome-desktop3-data gnome-shell gnome-shell-common initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core libadwaita-1-0
libgnome-bg-4-1 libgnome-desktop-3-19 libgnome-desktop-4-1 libidn12 libinput-bin libinput10 libmm-glib0 libmutter-10-0 libspeechd2 modemmanager mutter-common python3-debian python3-speechd
speech-dispatcher speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng ubuntu-advantage-tools ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-desktop-minimal ubuntu-drivers-common ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard
33 updated, 1 newly installed, 0 to be removed and 2 not updated.
It is necessary to take 9001 KB from the archives.
After this operation, an additional 375 kB of disk space will be used.
Would you like to continue ? [We]
$ apt list --installed firefox
Listing... Done
$ snap list firefox
Name Version Revision Tracking Editor Notes
firefox 115.0.2-1 2908 latest/stable/… mozilla✓ -
$ apt show firefox
Package: firefox
Version: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Department: website
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 261 kB
Provides: gnome-www-browser, iceweasel, www-browser, x-www-browser
Pre-Depends: debconf, snapd
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Breaks: firefox-dbg (<< 1:1snap1), firefox-dev (<< 1:1snap1), firefox-geckodriver (<< 1:1snap1), firefox-mozsymbols (<< 1:1snap1)
Replaces: firefox-dbg (<< 1:1snap1), firefox-dev (<< 1:1snap1), firefox-geckodriver (<< 1:1snap1), firefox-mozsymbols (<< 1:1snap1)
Task: xubuntu-live, ubuntukylin-desktop
Download-Size: 72.3 kB
APT-Sources: http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
Description: Transitional package - firefox -> firefox snap
This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed.
.
firefox is now replaced by the firefox snap.
