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How do I obtain the newest stable Debian package files?

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

When I have to install Debian packages (see above) I first have to download them. Let me paste the entire links to these two packages:

libgoocanvas3

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb

libgoocanvas-common

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb

As can be seen the two respective files are libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb and libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb.

and now the questions

  • Do I need to use different Debian package versions dependent on my Ubuntu version?

  • How do I know these are the newest stable versions of each file (related to above)?

  • Where do I get the "official" latest and greatest files?

Display name
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You have to use Search package directories on the special web site - https://packages.ubuntu.com .

For your case - https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=libgoocanvas will show all libgoocanvas packages for all currently supported Ubuntu releases.

The libgoocanvas3 was available only in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. On newer systems you will get libgoocanvas-2.0-9 at version 2.0.4.

From developer's point of view for goocanvas*-dev you will get the following:

  • libgoocanvas3 provides goocanvas.pc for pkgconfig
  • libgoocanvas-2.0-dev provides goocanvas-2.0.pc for pkgconfig

For the particular problem with Shutter on upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - you will not be able to download and install it in simple way because of missed libgnome2-* packages.

N0rbert
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There is no "latest" libgoocanvas3 and libgoocanvas-common.

Those packages were dropped from both Debian and Ubuntu in early 2018. Nobody is making those packages anymore.

You can, of course, try to build it from the latest source. Note that nobody has touched the source code in two years, and the Gnome maintainer has dropped the project (which is why it was dropped from Debian and Ubuntu).

user535733
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