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so I wanted to install firefox in WSL2 with Ubuntu.
Now, using


sudo apt install firefox

gives me this output:


Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  firefox

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 72.3 kB of archives.

After this operation, 261 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 firefox amd64 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 [72.3 kB]

Fetched 72.3 kB in 0s (420 kB/s)

Preconfiguring packages ...

Selecting previously unselected package firefox.

(Reading database ... 24109 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack .../firefox_1%3a1snap1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...

=> Installing the firefox snap

==> Checking connectivity with the snap store

===> System doesn't have a working snapd, skipping

Unpacking firefox (1:1snap1-0ubuntu2) ...

Setting up firefox (1:1snap1-0ubuntu2) ...

update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/firefox to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode

update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/firefox to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode

Trying to launch firefox at this point will fail:




Command '/usr/bin/firefox' requires the firefox snap to be installed.

Please install it with:



snap install firefox

Once I run said snap command, I get this:


error: cannot communicate with server: Post "http://localhost/v2/snaps/firefox": dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory

Can anyone help me with this? I'm not a linux expert.


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Quick answer:


Use your browser and look at:

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/install-firefox-deb-ubuntu-22-04/


It says, in short (you might need to skip the first two if you already did those):


sudo snap remove firefox

sudo apt remove firefox

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa



# Create a new file, it should be empty as it opens:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa



# Insert these lines, then save and exit

Package: firefox*

Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam

Pin-Priority: 501



# after saving, do

sudo apt update

sudo apt install firefox # or firefox-esr

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