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by chungy 3461 days ago
Hopefully Snap and FlatPak would change that :)
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aiur3la 3460 days ago
It seems it is already available for appimage and snap:

    $ snap find krita
    Name   Version  Developer  Notes  Summary
    krita  3.1.1    krita      -      Krita: the free digital painting studio
For the record, the latest apt version on ubuntu is 2.9.7
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StavrosK 3460 days ago
What do they do?
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the_af 3460 days ago
As far as I can tell, they are "fat" distribution packages which are independent (within reason, I guess) of the Linux distro. The aim seems to be to get rid of dependency hell and dependency on exact Linux distro versions, at the cost of larger packages. They also sandbox the app. I'm not sure I understand the disadvantages, besides the larger package size due to redundant libraries.
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StavrosK 3460 days ago
Hmm, so something like an LXC container? That's interesting, I'll look into it. Thank you!
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