The Linux tarball is a good choice, but it lacks desktop shortcut integration.

Firefox Linux tarball from Mozilla website.

But when you trying to install Gnome Extensions, the browser doesn’t work at the moment! So, you need workarounds: Like Chromium, the Firefox deb in Ubuntu 22.04 is an empty package that links to the Mozilla’s official Snap. But when you try installing the deb package via apt, it just install the Snap version back!! deb package for Firefox web browser from it’s repository! Here’s how to install it back.Īs you may know, Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 is a Snap package that runs in sandbox. This means that apt-get is working as intended, and something is specifically incompatible with firefox.Ubuntu 22.04 finally removed the.

In the dockerfile, replacing firefox with wget works.

apt install firefox works on an Ubuntu machine (just CLI, no docker involved).

Firefox is visible as a package on both the Debian Packages ( ) and the Ubuntu Packages ( ).

My reasons to believe that running apt-get install firefox should be possible are: The command '/bin/sh -c rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* & apt-get update & apt-get install -y -no-install-recommends firefox' returned a non-zero code: 100 This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, orĮ: Package 'firefox' has no installation candidate Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package. Get:6 buster-updates/main amd64 Packages Get:4 buster/updates/main amd64 Packages Step 2/2 : RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* & apt-get update & apt-get install -y -no-install-recommends firefox Sending build context to Docker daemon 2.048kB : $ docker build -t testing/simpleopenjdkfirefox. Here is the output of running docker build. This is a minimal reproducible example of my dockerfile: FROM openjdk:11Īpt-get update & apt-get install -y -no-install-recommends firefox

I am trying to create a docker image which includes an installed Firefox browser, using openjdk:11-slim or openjdk:11 as my base image.

Debian install firefox