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Yeah, Snaps are crap. I can't seem to get 24.04 to stop replacing .deb Firefox with the snap which breaks things like viewing plotly plots because the snap doesn't have access to the right folder. This one thing has me tempted to ditch Ubuntu. At least in earlier versions you could get the snap to stop auto-installing.


I have found a method that I use at each new install. It is mostly a configuration file that prioritizes Mozilla's PPA over snap:

https://github.com/ln-komandur/linux-utils/blob/master/Purge...


That's a lot of steps just to convince Ubuntu to stop shoving snap through our ass. More the reason to switch away from Ubuntu.


Snaps are indeed awful, unless you want to run something not compatible with your current installed OS version.

They are evil... but a necessary evil... =3

Also, this is a common task:

sudo snap remove firefox

sudo snap remove thunderbird

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa

Package: firefox*

Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam

Pin-Priority: 1001

sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa2

Package: thunderbird*

Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam

Pin-Priority: 1001

sudo apt update

sudo apt install firefox thunderbird




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