How to install Firefox without snap on Ubuntu 23.10

Fri Jan 12 18:38:03 UTC 2024

*Hello.*

*I performed a new installation of Ubuntu 23.10 and a certain point I
wanted install Firefox without snap and I followed the following steps :*

*Step 1*: Run this command to remove the Firefox Snap:

sudo snap remove firefox

*Step 2*: Run this command to add the Mozilla Team PPA to your list of
software sources:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa

*Step 3*: Chance the Firefox package priority to ensure the PPA/deb/apt
version of Firefox is always preferred. To do this, copy and paste this
whole code (not line by line):

echo '
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla-firefox

*Step 4*: If you want future Firefox upgrades to be installed
automatically,do this:

echo 'Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins::
"LP-PPA-mozillateam:${distro_codename}";' | sudo tee
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-firefox

*Step 5*: Finally, install the Firefox deb using apt:

sudo apt install firefox

And I realized that this procedure won't work anymore on Ubuntu 23.10,as
you can see below :

mario at marietto:/etc/apt# sudo apt install firefox

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
 apparmor fuse3 libcbor0.8 libfido2-1 libfuse3-3 liblzo2-2 libxmuu1
openssh-client snapd
 squashfs-tools xauth
Suggested packages:
 apparmor-profiles-extra apparmor-utils keychain libpam-ssh monkeysphere
ssh-askpass zenity
 | kdialog
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 apparmor firefox fuse3 libcbor0.8 libfido2-1 libfuse3-3 liblzo2-2 libxmuu1
openssh-client snapd
 squashfs-tools xauth
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 119 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

apparmor libcbor0.8 libfido2-1 openssh-client liblzo2-2 squashfs-tools
libfuse3-3 snapd firefox fuse3 libxmuu1 xauth

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3.14.0-4 [82.5 kB]
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amd64 2.60.4+23.10.1 [27.3 MB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/main amd64 firefox amd64
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2:1.1.3-3 [10.2 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/main amd64 xauth amd64
1:1.1.2-1 [25.8 kB]
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Preconfiguring packages ...
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/lib/systemd/system/snapd.apparmor.service.
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/lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service.
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/lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service.
Unit /lib/systemd/system/snapd.seeded.service is added as a dependency to a
non-existent unit cloud-final.service.
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/lib/systemd/system/snapd.service.
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=> Installing the firefox snap
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Setting up firefox (1:1snap1-0ubuntu3) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/firefox to provide
/usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/firefox to provide
/usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode
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mario at marietto:/etc/apt# firefox

Command '/bin/firefox' requires the firefox snap to be installed.
Please install it with: snap install firefox

It's clear that it does not work anymore. What should I do to install
firefox without snap ? thanks.

-- 
Mario.
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