https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477249
--- Comment #4 from Dan <es...@ieee.org> --- I couldn'tfind an appimage, snap or a flatpak. i coud probably figure out the last 2 but prefer appimage rather than loading a massive subsystem just to install one app On Sun, Nov 19, 2023, at 4:31 PM, Noah Davis wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477249 > > --- Comment #3 from Noah Davis <noaha...@gmail.com> --- > (In reply to Dan from comment #2) >> That is useful information. But, I installed it from the Software Center. >> Are you telling me that doing it that way does not always install the latest >> version? >> >> sudo apt install spectacle says: >> package not found. >> >> What am I missing? >> >> thx > > In short, certain kinds of Linux distributions such as Debian Stable and > Ubuntu > have long upgrade cycles where very few changes happen in between distribution > versions. This leads to their users being stuck with outdated versions. The > solutions available to you are the following: > > - Try to use a Flatpak, Snap, AppImage or other distribution independent > package that provides a newer version of the software you want to use. > - Add a repository that provides a newer Debian package for the software you > want to use. You might not have this option with Debian since extra > repositories aren't as common for Debian as they are for other stable Linux > distributions, AFAIK. > - Install a newer version by building it from source code. I don't expect most > users to do this, let alone stable Linux distribution users. For users with > the > latest software versions from a distro like Arch Linux it's not so hard, but > stable linux distribution users would probably need to set up a whole KDE > development environment because their developer package versions are too old. > - Install a Linux distribution that provides newer packages. You can consider > this a last resort, but it might solve a lot of problems if you eventually > find > yourself needing a lot of newer software versions. > > You can ignore the following if the info above was all you needed to read: > > Linux distributions that don't change much between versions are called > "stable" > Linux distributions. That is helpful for system administrators who need to > manage hundreds or thousands of computers. It's a common misconception among > Linux users who install Linux on their personal computers to think that > "stable" means fewer bugs when stable distributions are usually just as buggy > as any other kind. The difference is that the bugs you have to deal with > remain > the same for a long time. If you have a support contract with a company like > Canonical, SUSE or RedHat, you may get patches specific to their supported > Linux distributions to fix some of the bugs. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
