[kwlug-disc] Xubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 Upgrade

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 8:00 PM Jason <jasonpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was frustrating when using Ubuntu Server, that doing things like
> installing Firefox with apt, was just a wrapper for the snap package
> install.
> This actually broke the man pages and they aren't available.
> Hilariously this has been a known bug since 2016:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575593
>

I don't like snap either for many reasons.
Most of all, is that it breaks the discipline that the .deb world worked so
hard for ...

On Xubuntu, where I am typing this from, I have Firefox installed from an
apt PPA by the Mozilla Team.
It is not a wrapped snap package, and there no snapd on this machine at all.

(Actually Firefox ESR, which is less chaotic than regular Firefox's upgrade
cycle)

$ apt show firefox-esr
Package: firefox-esr
Version: 115.14.0esr+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <ubuntu-mozillateam at lists.ubuntu.com>
Installed-Size: 245 MB
Provides: gnome-www-browser, iceweasel, www-browser
Depends: lsb-release, libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libatk1.0-0 ... [lots of
other stuff]
Recommends: xul-ext-ubufox, libcanberra0, libdbusmenu-glib4,
libdbusmenu-gtk3-4
Suggests: fonts-lyx
Xul-Appid: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
Download-Size: 66.2 MB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main
amd64 Packages
Description: Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
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