firefox deb not installed

Additionally, the firefox deb is not in the manifest for Ubuntu 22.04.1.

The favourite icon in the shell isn't part of the firefox package, but the /usr/bin/firefox wrapper script has some logic to rewrite the favourite entry from "firefox.desktop" (deb package) to "firefox_firefox.desktop" (snap). So for dist upgrades, this is important (if the deb is removed, the icon disappears because the shell cannot locate "firefox.desktop", so it hides the favourite entry).

The deb also sets up dpkg alternatives for x-www-browser and gnome-www-browser, which snaps currently cannot do (see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/firefox-snap-cannot-be-set-as-default-browser/26636).

From #ubuntu-devel on 2022-10-13

10:12 < bdmurray> oSoMoN: with regards to bug 1992688
                  isn't having the x-www-browser and
                  gnome-www-browser important
                  functionality?
10:12 -ubottu:#ubuntu-devel- Bug 1992688 in firefox
          (Ubuntu) "firefox deb not installed"
          [Undecided, New]
          https://launchpad.net/bugs/1992688
10:13 < oSoMoN> bdmurray, it is
10:14 < bdmurray> oSoMoN: Can you work with the desktop
                  team on getting it seeded then?
10:15 < oSoMoN> seb128, do we want to seed firefox again
                for this? ^
11:27 < seb128> oSoMoN, I think so, I though we had it
                installed by default on the iso for
                22.04 still no? if so how did it drop?
11:29 < bdmurray> I did not see it in the manifest for
                  22.04
11:34 < seb128> k, maybe I misremember and we just added
                it back so there was a way to accomodate
                those requirements
11:35 < seb128> but it would make sense to have it
                installed by default to have the
                alternative and the package provide
11:36 < bdmurray> I think the release upgrader would
                  install it on upgrades if it ends up
                  being seeded in kinetic
11:45 < seb128> ack
11:45 < seb128> oSoMoN, +1 from me for doing the change

I'm going to do the ubuntu-meta upload so we can get this in ASAP.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-meta - 1.497

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ubuntu-meta (1.497) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added firefox to desktop-minimal-recommends [amd64 arm64 armhf],
    desktop-recommends [amd64 arm64 armhf] as it provides dpkg alternatives
    for x-www-browser and gnome-www-browser. (LP: #1992688)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:37:15 -0700

I tested an upgrade from Jammy to Kinetic today (after the ubuntu-meta change) and I saw that firefox was in the list of packages to be installed during the upgrade.

Remove (was auto installed) gir1.2-mutter-10 gnome-bluetooth
  gnome-todo-common libevent-2.1-7 libfwupdplugin5 libgnome-bg-4-1
  libgnome-desktop-3-19 libgnome-desktop-4-1 libmutter-10-0
  pipewire-media-session

Install: at-spi2-common attr cpp-12 dbus-bin dbus-daemon
  dbus-session-bus-common dbus-system-bus-common endeavour
  endeavour-common firefox g++-12 gcc-12 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-4.0
  gir1.2-gweather-4.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.1 gir1.2-mutter-11

So no changes in ubuntu-release-upgrader are necessary to make this work.

This just needs to be backported to Jammy now?

tor browser no installed error 404

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-meta into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/1.481.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Brian promised to update the description with the required SRU information. On this note I have accepted the upload into jammy-proposed.

I tested an Ubuntu 22.04 daily build today and can confirm that firefox deb is installed and `x-www-browser www.ubuntu.com` works.

bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ cat /var/log/installer/media-info
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230621)bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ apt-cache policy ubuntu-desktop
ubuntu-desktop:
  Installed: 1.481.1
  Candidate: 1.481.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.481.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.481 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ which x-www-browser
/usr/bin/x-www-browser
bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-meta - 1.481.1

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ubuntu-meta (1.481.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added firefox to desktop-minimal-recommends [amd64 arm64 armhf],
    desktop-recommends [amd64 arm64 armhf] as it provides dpkg alternatives
    for x-www-browser and gnome-www-browser. (LP: #1992688)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:17:57 -0700

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-meta has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

FYI, if a user has a 22.04 install where they have explicitly removed snapd/firefox this will add them back. Not sure if this was a consideration in the fix/testing.

Also, the apt resolver is pulling in snapd while holding ubuntu-desktop back during staging which made finding the cause of the snapd/firefox installation a bit hard to track down since no packages upgraded in the same unattended-upgrades operation had dependencies on them.

(thread: https://hachyderm.io/@rcj4747/110667685702206834)