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by irq-1 3463 days ago
Thanks for Krita!

Chrome has its own deb repository -- maybe more active projects need this too. (Maybe there's a service to be had hosting and configuring repos?)

I'm on Xubuntu 16.4 and I have 2.9.7 installed. I missed the entire year of developments. 16.10 has 2.9.11 released Feb 4th. 17.4 has 3.1.1 but won't be released for ~4 months. Maybe we should blame Ubuntu for 6 month release cycles, or me for not upgrading, but regardless of the cause, Krita users don't have the new version.
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jcastro 3463 days ago
> we should blame Ubuntu for 6 month release cycles

16.04 and onward can now have apps decoupled from the OS release for apps that provide snaps, like Krita does. `snap install krita` will get you 3.1.1.

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irq-1 3463 days ago
Thanks! I noticed the /snap directory, but didn't know snap was installed and usable.

Worked on 16.10 and I'll use this on 16.4 too.

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