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I am using a Ubuntu 22.04 XFCE4 (virtual) machine on ARM64 and it works nice. I removed Snap as it is a real disk space hog and replaced it by apt. Apt does perform the updates using apt update and apt upgrade, but Firefox refuses to update beyond version 136.4 while 137 has been out for a while as I could install in on macOS M1 and Linux Mint. I tried adding extra packages like sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa but all to no avail. It refuses to install 136. Even running these recommendations from Firefox don't work: it says 136.4 is the latest.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux

What am I doing wrong ?

Archisman Panigrahi
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I tried Flatpak, but that is a real resource / disk space hog.

Then I downloaded a .deb file from the Mozilla site which is FF 138.0, the latest stable build. So, no, I am not looking for the latest cutting edge beta build, but a stable build. I just executed sudo dpkg -i firefox-138.0.deb and it worked. I did the same successfully on two different arm64 machines which refused to update via apt.

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Ubuntu is a Debian based distribution and Debian's focus is on having "stable" packages rather than cutting edge packages (as in Snap), and the apt repository in Ubuntu is a snapshot of Debian's testing repository

From Debian.org:

Understand that the job of Debian is, and always has been, to produce Stable

Also, snap installs your package and all it's dependencies in an isolated space

From Snap Craft:

A snap is a bundle of an app and its dependencies that works without modification across Linux distributions

But apt installs your packages on top of other system packages (as dependency) so as a result you cannot upgrade to a much newer upgrade as the newest upgrades usually depend on cutting edge dependencies which haven't yet been pushed to the repository

If you still insist on having the latest version of your favorite apps, and you don't like Snap, try Firefox flatpak

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