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Snapless Ubuntu (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure what others are doing to use Ubuntu (23.04) without snaps, but this is what I am doing:

for Firefox I found a guide here
for chromium I am actually using the Linux Mint packages (which work absolutely fine), and I have just set up a small repository I can add to apt:

deb [arch=amd64 allow-insecure=yes] http://snapless.cmeerw.net victoria upstream

this just syncs from Linux Mint and only republishes chromium in the Packages file (with downloads redirected to a Linux Mint mirror). BTW, I am not signing these...

What are others doing?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pop!_OS is "Snapless". Our Firefox builds come directly from Mozilla in the deb format.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but what about your chromium builds? (as mentioned in my post, replacing the firefox snap with a firefox deb is easy enough on Ubuntu, chromium is the more difficult one to deal with)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Chromium is better served through third parties like Vivaldi. Or by Chrome from Google. Most of which offer debs. We recommend Firefox though.