What happened to my machine?

[Zak Smith]

I do something like this--

to download latest:
#!/bin/sh
cd
cd Downloads
wget -c --content-disposition  "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US"



to install (maybe) latest download:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

full=`ls -1t $HOME/Downloads/firefox-*.tar.bz2| head -1`
dl="$full"
ffxfile=`basename "$full"`
ffx=`basename "$ffxfile" .tar.bz2`
opt=/opt/$ffx

echo $full
echo $ffxfile
echo $ffx
echo $opt


if [ ! -f "$dl" ]; then
	echo ERROR $dl does not exist
	exit 1
fi

if [ -d "$opt" ]; then
	echo ERROR $opt alredy exists
	exit 1
fi

cd /opt
tar -xva --strip-components=1 --one-top-level=$ffx  -f $dl

rm -f firefox.previous
mv firefox firefox.previous
ln -sf $ffx firefox

ls -lartd firefox*












On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 09:15:25PM -0600, Brian Sturgill wrote:
> Well, it's a good idea, but I don't know how to install it under Debian (I
> would just use apt which will not work, ubuntu has seen to that.).
> However there is this article:
> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04
> I basically have to add the mozilla PPA...
>
> I'm going to try it as soon as I get another browser installed so that I
> can exit FireFox and still
> read the directions...
>
> I know, I'll install Microsoft Edge! (Yes, it does exist for Linux.)
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 9:00 PM Zak Smith <mrzaksmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Uninstall firefox and then install it how you would on debian. Proceed to
> > upgrade it when you want.
> >
> > I just installed ubuntu 22 on a new laptop as a test and this snap stuff
> > is crazy. Although native ZFS is cool.
> >
> > ---
> > Zak Smith
> > 307-543-7820 office
> > Please do not send confidential information via email.
> >
> > On Jun 9, 2022, at 8:55 PM, Brian Sturgill <bsturgill at ataman.com> wrote:
> >
> > ???
> > Guess what just came back:[image: Screenshot at 2022-06-09 20-51-03.png]
> >
> > So what do I do now?... This is clearly going to drive me nuts.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 1:01 PM Brian Sturgill <bsturgill at ataman.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> For years I thought I was running Linux... but I just ran "df" and
> >> clearly someone has replaced Linux with another operating system!
> >>
> >> brian at dobby:~$ df
> >> Filesystem                 1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >> udev                         1927400        0   1927400   0% /dev
> >> tmpfs                         394484     1368    393116   1% /run
> >> /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root 110774660 13632712  91471856  13% /
> >> tmpfs                        1972412        0   1972412   0% /dev/shm
> >> tmpfs                           5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
> >> tmpfs                        1972412        0   1972412   0%
> >> /sys/fs/cgroup
> >> /dev/loop0                     56960    56960         0 100%
> >> /snap/core18/2344
> >> /dev/loop3                     63488    63488         0 100%
> >> /snap/core20/1518
> >> /dev/loop2                     56960    56960         0 100%
> >> /snap/core18/2409
> >> /dev/loop1                     63488    63488         0 100%
> >> /snap/core20/1494
> >> /dev/loop5                     69632    69632         0 100%
> >> /snap/lxd/22526
> >> /dev/loop4                     69504    69504         0 100%
> >> /snap/lxd/22753
> >> /dev/loop6                     48128    48128         0 100%
> >> /snap/snapd/16010
> >> /dev/loop7                     45824    45824         0 100%
> >> /snap/snapd/15904
> >> tmpfs                         394480        0    394480   0%
> >> /run/user/1000
> >>
> >> Seriously, what kind of device is /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root?
> >>
> >> Just last week, it was constantly badgering me to exit Firefox to upgrade
> >> its snap.
> >> It said I had to do so within 12 days if I wanted to "avoid disruption".
> >> Sounded like some kind of organized crime racket.
> >> I exited, waited, it complained again, (repeat 5 times)... finally told
> >> snap to upgrade it
> >> manually, but cannot remember what worked... I know it took like half an
> >> hour to figure it out.
> >> Snap upgrade is too easy of course.
> >>
> >> Really, I get less crap than this from Windows or MacOS.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Brian



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Zak Smith
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