bug(os): libsnappy1v5 improperly wiped

[skelmy]

Rhino Linux version & platform:
Latest as of filing report installed from: Rhino-Linux-2025.2-amd64.iso

What distribution component is causing issues:
libsnappy1v5

Describe the bug
On fresh install of Rhino Linux, after installing ubuntu-restricted-extas and gstreamer, no videos using Firefox that is preinstalled or LibreWolf for an extra tested browser installed via AM Manager appman (this browser is also based on Firefox), 'no live streaming video would work', tested using YouTube and the channel: 'LoFi Girl' channel as that's streaming 24/7, tested with both browsers, both

To Reproduce

1. Start up 'Preinstalled Firefox'
2. Go to: YouTube, try to stream live video.
3. Error message saying 'Your browser can't play videos'
4. Go to: YouTube, try to play 'non live streaming video' that is play on demand, which will work fine.

Expected behavior
Should be able to just load up Firefox after installing Rhino Linux, go to YouTube or any other streaming service and play streaming videos.

Additional context

Here is what is missing and the fix all in one:

sudo apt install --reinstall libsnappy1v5

Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Reinstalling: 1, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
Download size: 30.4 kB
Space needed: 0 B / 219 GB available

Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu ./devel/main amd64 libsnappy1v5 amd64 1.2.1-1 [30.4 kB]
Fetched 30.4 kB in 0s (103 kB/s)
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libsnappy1v5:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libsnapd-glib-2-1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 273997 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libsnappy1v5_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libsnappy1v5:amd64 (1.2.1-1) over (1.2.1-1) ...
Setting up libsnappy1v5:amd64 (1.2.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.40-4ubuntu1) ...

As you can see that the dependency of:

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libsnappy1v5:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libsnapd-glib-2-1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

Aren't installed, and after running:

sudo apt install --reinstall libsnappy1v5

This fixes the issue as it installs both those dependencies.

a) Issue a fix update that pushes this out to everyone?

b) Create another Rhino Linux ISO update that includes this installed by default as will fix the issue for people on a fresh install?

Props to: 'villamorrd' for the fix.

[oklopfer]

Likely caused by https://github.com/rhino-linux/os/blob/main/etc/config/hooks/live/000-remove-blacklisted-packages.chroot#L8

Will investigate and fix for next release, and likely also add to dependencies for firefox. Thanks for the report.

[oklopfer]

Likely caused by https://github.com/rhino-linux/os/blob/main/etc/config/hooks/live/000-remove-blacklisted-packages.chroot#L8

Will investigate and fix for next release, and likely also add to dependencies for firefox. Thanks for the report.

@cat-master21 That line has been there since the dawn of our builder, but find / -type f -name "*snap*" is evidently problematic, as it catches more than just snapd related content (/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libsnappy.so.1.2.1 for example here)
I dont know if we can just update the find method to do *snapd* instead, since I dont quite know what it is targeting, so it would be great if you could step in and help solve this on the builder (if you do it on the main branch I will trickle it down to the others when its ready)

[cat-master21]

After looking into the issue, it seems like Snap removes itself properly, making that line is unnecessary now. Also as a side note, CUPS in Ubuntu now depends on libsnapd-glib (which is it's own library) but that only takes kilobytes so no big issue. @oklopfer You can remove that line

[oklopfer]

See #43