I would be fine with that. Any way to clearly note the change for people? that the first few comments referenced a different article? Separately, @hungariantoast's link is an explicitly...
I would be fine with that. Any way to clearly note the change for people? that the first few comments referenced a different article?
Separately, @hungariantoast's link is an explicitly promotional link, shared from his LWN subscription and encouraging others to subscribe. I'm fine with that, just not sure if it rubs up against any Tildes.net policies...
Nutshell ... now in Ubuntu, executing "apt install chromium" will not install Chromium from a regular repo. Instead, w/o user notification, it installs snapd and then pulls the Chromium snap...
Nutshell ... now in Ubuntu, executing "apt install chromium" will not install Chromium from a regular repo. Instead, w/o user notification, it installs snapd and then pulls the Chromium snap bundle from the Ubuntu Store.
The reason though is fairly well stated in the article: packaging chromium is a PITA for any distro that also maintains LTS versions as well as point releases. Since Mint blocks snapd from being...
The reason though is fairly well stated in the article: packaging chromium is a PITA for any distro that also maintains LTS versions as well as point releases.
Since Mint blocks snapd from being installed at all this can be remedied by removing /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref then do an update and install snapd.
What is relevant here is that only Canonical pushes snap-packages while the rest of world doesn't.
Agreed. This is a much better, much more complete article than my original. Looking into an LWN subscription now...
Do you want me or someone else to change the link in the OP? If you think it’s a better source, we could do that
I would be fine with that. Any way to clearly note the change for people? that the first few comments referenced a different article?
Separately, @hungariantoast's link is an explicitly promotional link, shared from his LWN subscription and encouraging others to subscribe. I'm fine with that, just not sure if it rubs up against any Tildes.net policies...
LWN articles are posted here every now and then, AFAIK there's never been an issue.
Nutshell ... now in Ubuntu, executing "apt install chromium" will not install Chromium from a regular repo. Instead, w/o user notification, it installs snapd and then pulls the Chromium snap bundle from the Ubuntu Store.
The reason though is fairly well stated in the article: packaging chromium is a PITA for any distro that also maintains LTS versions as well as point releases.
Since Mint blocks snapd from being installed at all this can be remedied by removing /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref then do an update and install snapd.
What is relevant here is that only Canonical pushes snap-packages while the rest of world doesn't.
One of the reasons is ...
@hungariantoast's linked article is much more complete; check it out.
Read it too - but also listened to and talked to Canonical people