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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0007991Kali LinuxKali Package Improvementpublic2022-10-08 13:202025-07-14 09:36
ReporterL1ghtn1ng Assigned Tosteev  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Version2022.3 
Summary0007991: Do not set firefox-esr to be part of kali-desktop-core* kali-desktop-gnome/other desktop enviroments
Description

I would like to be able to remove firefox-esr without it wanting to remove the above packages so I could install firefox from either snap package or flatpack images or manually if I so choose to, would also allow people to remove it if they wanted to use only chrome/uim as well.

This comes about as I want to have the new features in firefox with there monthly releases not when they move to a new major esr version and do not want to have 2 different versions of firefox installed

Steps To Reproduce

sudo apt remove firefox-esr

Activities

daniruiz

daniruiz

2022-10-24 09:30

manager   ~0016997

You can remove firefox-esr without issues. The package kali-desktop-core is a metapackage that is used to bundle the dependencies, so if you remove it, it doesn't remove anything important, you just won't have that metapackage intalled. Same goes with the kali-desktop-* packages

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2022-10-08 13:20 L1ghtn1ng New Issue
2022-10-24 09:30 daniruiz Note Added: 0016997
2022-10-29 01:50 steev Assigned To => steev
2022-10-29 01:50 steev Status new => closed
2022-10-29 01:50 steev Resolution open => no change required
2025-07-14 09:36 g0tmi1k Priority high => normal