Does this mean you have to use apt-get to get the deb version again? Or is there an even more complicated command? Iām wondering what happens for the other Ubuntu flavors. Iām usually running Kubuntu.
It is about installing .deb that you manually downloaded from somewhere. You canāt install them by double clicking on them, you have to install from command line.
Even apt is deliberately broken:
ā[If] You use āsudo apt install chromiumā, you get a Snap package of Chromium instead of Debianā
It is a good idea. Imagine you are completely new to Ubuntu and want to install chromium. Youāre gonna search on Google how to do that and you will probably find an old article telling you to use APT. If āsudo apt install chromiumā did not work it would be very frustrating.
Why does this break apt? Just because, I assume (I am using Debian btw), it installs a placeholder deb-package which, while running the postinst script, installs chromium via snap commands?
It doesnāt break apt, apt just prefers snaps now.
This is as they designed it.
The issue here is that people donāt like this other thing and so the distribution which has been moving towards this other thing for like a decade now I guess is the bad guy for continuing to work towards that goal.
