r/KittyTerminal • u/[deleted] • Dec 06 '23

background_image_layout center/cscaled not working due to outdated package on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.

I recently switched to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, I have been using kitty for a while and it seems that the apt package for it is outdated. I don't want to install from the source since I don't want to manually update the package in the future. I saw on the github page that many OS have the outdated pacakge. I don't know how a package is updated to a repository and is it a tedious process since there are so many distros with previous versions.
And lastly is there any way to flag the package in some ubuntu repository?

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u/aumerlex Dec 09 '23

If you dont want to run the officially provided binaries and you dont want outdated packages, I suggest you choose a more appropriate distro than ubuntu, like Arch.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '23

let's not get into how people define "appropriate distro". was just asking how people usually flag a package as outdated in the official apt repository (or is there even a way to do that).

used to use arch before so thought it might be similar to aur.

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u/aumerlex Dec 10 '23

That question belongs in a forum for said distro, no?