remove-snap Does not install chromium and firefox as .debs

Kills firefox and doesn't allow us to install it as a .deb

Jul 18 '25 21:07 PhoenixStormJr

I don't have the equipment to test this myself at the moment, sorry. But, have you tried:

sudo apt install firefox

to install firefox?

I guess that you had firefox installed as a snap, and this removed it, but you didn't leave much info on how you're trying to install the deb file or even where it came from so I don't have a lot to go on.

Aug 12 '25 06:08 BryanDollery

Sorry! I left a short reply because I thought the project was no longer maintained! Let me go into more detail:

So, you need to update the repositories for apt. because sudo apt install firefox installs the SNAP version. You shouldn't just remove snap, you also need to update the apt repositories. Otherwise it will just go back to snap.

And I DON'T mean sudo apt update, I literally mean get new repositories period.

Aug 13 '25 03:08 PhoenixStormJr

I guess this repo looks dormant when there's been nothing to do for a while :)

I've just downloaded an Ubuntu 25.04 desktop and run it in virtualbox on my macbook and I can confirm that you are correct. This totally messes up firefox because Canonical do not include the official firefox repo and do not bundle the official firefox. I tried to fix this, but it's broken (adding the correct repo doesn't work) and even if I fixed firefox we're likely to find that other packages have been similarly munted.

My recommendation is to not go anywhere near Ubunutu Desktop. I'll add a comment to the readme about this. Thx

Aug 14 '25 09:08 BryanDollery

LOL, still nothing? Ubuntu sucks, yeah, but I got it working! Check this code:

https://github.com/PhoenixStormJr/remove-snap-from-ubuntu

Maybe you can fork it or copy the repo information to your own?

Aug 14 '25 21:08 PhoenixStormJr