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Ubuntu 24.04 Firefox snap replacement

I need a proper Firefox installation and not the snap version. The snap version does not work properly with Smart Cards. Although it seems to be possible to get it to work with smart cards it is extremely difficult and I don't care to try and make it work. This is not a tutorial on how to get your PIV or CAC to work. Also snaps suck. Canonical will heopfully abandon snaps in the future.

Remove Snap Firefox

sudo snap disable firefox
sudo snap remove --purge firefox
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Remove data for snap "firefox" (1943) (unlinkat /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell/en_ZA.dic: read-only file system)

Serial console for KVM based VM and IPMI serial channel

grub and kernel console

Set in /etc/default/grub:

...
###GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

	# source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/74345/how-do-i-bypass-ignore-the-gpg-signature-checks-of-apt #link-check-available 4/25/2025

	sudo apt -o Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories=true \
	-o Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories=true \
	update

	sudo apt -o Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories=true \
	-o Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories=true \
	-y upgrade


	#### Powershell

	# Prompt securely for the API Key
	$apiKeyTemp = Read-Host "Enter your API Key"

	# Set the environment variable using the temporary variable
	$env:API_KEY = $apiKeyTemp

	# Optional: Clear the temporary variable from memory

	# SOURCES
	# https://starship.rs/config
	# https://starship.rs/presets/nerd-font.html#configuration

	# DEBUG via:
	# starship explain
	# STARSHIP_LOG=trace

	"$schema" = 'https://starship.rs/config-schema.json'

	class Unzip < Formula
	desc "Extraction utility for .zip compressed archives"
	homepage "https://infozip.sourceforge.net/UnZip.html"
	url "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/infozip/UnZip%206.x%20%28latest%29/UnZip%206.0/unzip60.tar.gz"
	version "6.0"
	sha256 "036d96991646d0449ed0aa952e4fbe21b476ce994abc276e49d30e686708bd37"
	license "Info-ZIP"
	revision 8

	livecheck do

	reg delete "HKCU\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 5" /v "CacheID" /f

	reg delete "HKCU\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4" /v "CacheID" /f

	echo "check_certificate = off" >> ~/.wgetrc
	echo "insecure" >> ~/.curlrc

	pg_dump -U postgres -d qanda_db -F c -b -v -f output_file.dump

	pg_restore -U postgres -v -d test123 .\output_file.dump

	https://rapidgator.net/file/67a86e48f05ad2fdc4b1a47f2d607550

	https://rapidgator.net/file/cc8d7eb592d0846e39eb9cad9d50a4aa

	https://rapidgator.net/file/ff9d5fb45c964ed875aafb588e1fae5e