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Re:Whew, what a year by chungy on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:56AM (#13291515)
Hopefully Snap and FlatPak would change that :)
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Re:Whew, what a year by aiur3la on Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:19PM (#13291947)
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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Re:Whew, what a year by StavrosK on Saturday December 31, 2016 @11:22AM (#13291613)
What do they do?
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Re:Whew, what a year by the_af on Saturday December 31, 2016 @11:31AM (#13291673)
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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Re:Whew, what a year by StavrosK on Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:05PM (#13291867)
Hmm, so something like an LXC container? That's interesting, I'll look into it. Thank you!
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