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sonichy

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Registered: 2023-08-17

Posts: 12  

LXQt is too old

https://lxqt-project.org/releases/
LXQt 1.2.0 (31 in daedalus) is November 2022.
The lastest LXQt 2.1.0 is November 2024.
Why?

RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

Posts: 95  

Re: LXQt is too old

Debian stable never updates packages like that, any OS based on it, which daedalus is,  has the same limitations. If you want newer version then you need to upgrade to excalibur which has the version 32. This is always the main complaint about the Debian stable versions the software is frozen at the time of release not getting updated versions until the next stable release in about two years time they aim for these days.

root@9600k:~# apt policy lxqt
lxqt:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 32+b1
  Version table:
     32+b1 950
        950 http://ca.deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur/main amd64 Packages
        600 http://ca.deb.devuan.org/merged unstable/main amd64 Packages

brocashelm

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Registered: 2020-06-29

Posts: 130  

Re: LXQt is too old

Debian and its derivatives are not meant to be used in that way. You should be using a rolling release distro if you want the latest versions of packages. Your only other option is to compile it from source.