Tried to update this morning. Got a fairly shocking message that I was being forced to "upgrade" chromium and that snap would be (re) installed with no exit option, just a YES button.
Sounds like Canonical has taken a page from the Microsoft playbook and is now going to jam snapd down our throats. I broke the install sequence but after a half-hour I basically had to allow the "upgrade" and snap to be re-installed. Which I immediately purged again and went looking for other options before I just rolled back to this morning's snapshot.
A few minutes searching the web (using Firefox) revealed that System76 is maintaining chromium without snaps. So I enabled the System76 ppa, installed chromium, and disabled the system 76 ppa again to prevent unintended upgrades to other packages and it's working well. Seems to be behind the latest release, but I can live with that for now. Here's the installed version:
Version 83.0.4103.116 (Developer Build) built on Debian bullseye/sid, running on Debian bullseye/sid (64-bit)
I guess I have to get serious about a new browser AND a new distro if this is what I can expect going forward. I've been using Kubuntu/KDEneon sive 2009. Time for a change I guess.
Sounds like Canonical has taken a page from the Microsoft playbook and is now going to jam snapd down our throats. I broke the install sequence but after a half-hour I basically had to allow the "upgrade" and snap to be re-installed. Which I immediately purged again and went looking for other options before I just rolled back to this morning's snapshot.
A few minutes searching the web (using Firefox) revealed that System76 is maintaining chromium without snaps. So I enabled the System76 ppa, installed chromium, and disabled the system 76 ppa again to prevent unintended upgrades to other packages and it's working well. Seems to be behind the latest release, but I can live with that for now. Here's the installed version:
Version 83.0.4103.116 (Developer Build) built on Debian bullseye/sid, running on Debian bullseye/sid (64-bit)
I guess I have to get serious about a new browser AND a new distro if this is what I can expect going forward. I've been using Kubuntu/KDEneon sive 2009. Time for a change I guess.
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