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Currently the Snap-package Kolourpaint is broken, at least on my system (Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS). And there do not seem to be any current updates.

$ snap refresh kolourpaint
snap "kolourpaint" has no updates available

Is it possible to do a manual update from the apt-get repository version of Kolourpaint somehow? I saw a tool called snapcraft that is supposed to update from .deb files - would that work, and if so, what would be the entire process?

(This question changed a lot as I researched Snaps. I hadn't used Kolourpaint in a few months, clicked it - and it was broken. Couldn't find how to update it in Snap, but found this to update the apt-get version: Update KolourPaint. That installed the CLI version, which works. I had thought that Snap was just a "pretty" front-end to the apt-get installer, so this had updated my Kolourpaint "package", but quickly found out that was wrong - Snap is an entirely different ecosystem.)

So now, I have a GUI-friendly paint-package that I can click on a PNG file, and have it run - except it doesn't. Or I can go to the CLI and run a different package - and have it work. It would be nice to reconcile this somehow.

John C
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Try this it will install the deb instead of the snap

sudo snap remove kolourpaint
sudo apt install kolourpaint

or GUI for discover (kubuntu) search Kolourpaint then uninstall it next click on sources ubuntu-...(a lot of text) and then install it. edit: am i getting upvoteed because i told some one to uninstall a snap

lnee
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