[SOLVED] Uninstalling Firefox

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[SOLVED] Uninstalling Firefox

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Update Manager thinks I have Firefox installed and wants to update it. Why would it think I have Firefox installed?

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markfilipak wrote:Update Manager thinks I have Firefox installed and wants to update it. Why would it think I have Firefox installed?

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Well, don't you have it then? After all, it's part of the default Mint Xfce installation.
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Re: How does Mint know what's installed?

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I run Pale Moon.
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Re: How does Mint know what's installed?

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markfilipak wrote:I run Pale Moon.
Yes, but you may have installed several web browsers, right? So that's no answer to my question.

Anyway, you can always launch Synaptic and let it search for Firefox packages. Or let the terminal enlighten you:

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which firefox
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Re: How does Mint know what's installed?

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Pjotr wrote:
markfilipak wrote:I run Pale Moon.
Yes, but you may have installed several web browsers, right? So that's no answer to my question.

Anyway, you can always launch Synaptic and let it search for Firefox packages. Or let the terminal enlighten you:

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which firefox

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/usr/bin/firefox
Synaptic will not launch.
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Well, the answer of the terminal is clear: you do have Firefox installed.
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Re: How does Mint know what's installed?

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Pjotr wrote:Well, the answer of the terminal is clear: you do have Firefox installed.
Okay. How do I get rid of it?

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If you haven't even noticed it so far, how is it a problem?
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Re: How does Mint know what's installed?

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This should do it:

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sudo apt-get remove firefox
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Re: How does Mint know what's installed?

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M0em wrote:If you haven't even noticed it so far, how is it a problem?
I'm running Mint in a virtual machine and memory (both active and virtual disc storage) is an issue.
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Re: How does Mint know what's installed?

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Pjotr wrote:This should do it:

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sudo apt-get remove firefox
That worked. And "which firefox" returns nothing. But Update Manager still insisted I needed to "Upgrade" Firefox. So I rebooted. Update Manager still insisted I needed to "Upgrade" Firefox. So I set it to "Ignore updates for this package".

Update Mgr. wants to "Upgrade" an application that's not even installed. Not good.

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Re: [SOLVED] Uninstalling Firefox

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The command I use is:

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sudo apt-get --purge autoremove firefox
After running that I don't get bothered with any of the frequent updates for a program I don't use.
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Re: [SOLVED] Uninstalling Firefox

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austin.texas wrote:The command I use is:

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sudo apt-get --purge autoremove firefox
After running that I don't get bothered with any of the frequent updates for a program I don't use.
Well, I tried this. It seemed to work. Then I took Firefox off the Update Manager ignore list and Firefox "Upgrade" reappeared. So I put Firefox back on the Update Manager ignore list.
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Re: [SOLVED] Uninstalling Firefox

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markfilipak wrote:Well, I tried this. It seemed to work. Then I took Firefox off the Update Manager ignore list and Firefox "Upgrade" reappeared.
Lol. You're just going to have to pay Clem more than Mozilla does, then. (JUST KIDDING! :lol: )

I'm pretty sure that I've seen upgrades appear in the list for graphics cards (and companies) that my laptop doesn't even have... But those upgrades are likely at least for files that are installed.

I thought I might have seen a Nautilus (Nemo? Something besides Thunar...) one appear at some point. But I'm old, and easily confused (lol).

You could try removing the prohibition, then installing the upgrade, then uninstalling Firefox (via Synaptic Package Manager).

Web-browsers are considered standard items these days. The default one in a Mint Xfce installation is Firefox. I wonder if there's some setting in your setup that still lists that as being the case. I don't know how that would have any bearing on whether or not you receive updates for it, though...

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Re: [SOLVED] Uninstalling Firefox

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markfilipak wrote:Then I took Firefox off the Update Manager ignore list and Firefox "Upgrade" reappeared. So I put Firefox back on the Update Manager ignore list.
Most likely the updates you see are related to the language packages for firefox.
I have described the problem and the solution here.
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