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In synaptic I saw okular 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.1, and on okular website, the latest stable one is Okular 0.21.

Why is the version of the Ubuntu one so different?

How can I find out the actual version of okular in the Ubuntu one?

my Ubuntu is 64-bit 14.04.

Thanks.

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I believe that the 4.13.3 part of version number does refer to version of KDE applications and not the version of okular. In July 2014 KDE updates applications to version 4.13.13 and as you can see on the download page okular package has version 4.13.3.

As from the okular website :

The last stable release is Okular 0.21, shipped as part of the KDE Applications 14.12 release.

the okular 0.21 was shipped with KDE version that is not currently in repository for 14.04 Trusty.

You can find the version of okular offered in rep. by looking at Okular website's news and finding which okular version was shipped with KDE version you see in Ubuntu reps.

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  • Thanks. What are the versions of Okular and of KDE in Ubuntu 14.04 repository? – Tim Mar 09 '15 at 17:29
  • @Tim Okular should be 0.19 as KDE version (of applications) is 4.13.3 – sipral Mar 09 '15 at 17:34
  • thanks. what is the KDE version for the latest okular 0.21? The site says "KDE Applications 14.12 release" but does 14.12 make sense? – Tim Mar 09 '15 at 17:46
  • @Tim it does: "This release marks the beginning of a new style of releases replacing the threesome of KDE Workspaces, Platform and Applications in the 4 series which ended with the latest KDE Applications update last month." – muru Mar 09 '15 at 17:50
  • @muru: my question is: is 14.12 the version of KDE, of okular, or of something else? – Tim Mar 09 '15 at 18:58
  • @Tim It's the version of "KDE Applications", successor to the KDE Software Compilation – muru Mar 09 '15 at 19:02
  • @muru: Then are "4.13.3" and "14.12" both versions of "KDE Applications"? Why is there such dramatic change? – Tim Mar 09 '15 at 23:53
  • @Tim: I think the starting 4 was dropped, so it's not really that drastic change from 13.3 to 14.12. – sipral Mar 10 '15 at 15:23
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The answer here is just so simple that it will likely get caught in the low quality answer queue. Simply drop to a terminal and issue the command okular --version or okular -v.

Source: http://stuff.onse.fi/man?program=okular&section=1 and/or man okular

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