[Bug 2104855] [NEW] firefox should be removed from ubuntu-desktop-minimal since it is no longer a dpkg

[Niraj Vatvani]

Public bug reported:

When using autoinstall (https://canonical-subiquity.readthedocs-
hosted.com/en/latest/intro-to-autoinstall.html) to do an offline
installation of Ubuntu since 21.10, the ubuntu-desktop-minimal package
will never be successfully installed since there is no way to prompt
snapd to skip the Firefox installation.

As a consequence of moving the firefox dpkg to a snap (and therefore
online) package, the firefox application should be removed as a
dependency of the ubuntu-desktop-minimal package and not be installed to
enable seamless offline execution of autoinstall.

** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: autoinstall firefox offline ubuntu-desktop-minimal

** Attachment added: "Blocked offline autoinstall because firefox is no longer a dpkg"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2104855/+attachment/5867789/+files/VirtualBox_ubuntu-autoinstall_27_03_2025_22_11_04.png

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Title:
  firefox should be removed from ubuntu-desktop-minimal since it is no
  longer a dpkg

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When using autoinstall (https://canonical-subiquity.readthedocs-
  hosted.com/en/latest/intro-to-autoinstall.html) to do an offline
  installation of Ubuntu since 21.10, the ubuntu-desktop-minimal package
  will never be successfully installed since there is no way to prompt
  snapd to skip the Firefox installation.

  As a consequence of moving the firefox dpkg to a snap (and therefore
  online) package, the firefox application should be removed as a
  dependency of the ubuntu-desktop-minimal package and not be installed
  to enable seamless offline execution of autoinstall.

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