Linux Mint 21.3 pulling the old version of OpenLP

e11ie

Hello,

I have checked the website and I've seen that the newest version of OpenLP is 3.1.0 "Superb Seth." When I enter the following command 'sudo apt install openlp' it says that 'the openlp installed is the newest version', which is 2.4.6-1, which is not true. This is also true for the Linux Mint's package mamager a.k.a. app store. Do you have any clues on how to solve this? Linux Mint uses Debian packages (which are available on OpenLP's website) and this older version keeps showing up an old bug on startup, which means I am completely unable to use it (and I really need it).

Thank you in advance and God bless you!

Elizabeth

rrygle

You could try downloading version bookworm version from here and then manually install the Deb file. Often you can just right click the package and select install.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openlp

The main problem is that if the dependencies aren't available you might still not be able to use the version you want. Trixie is what Debian calls the next testing/unstable version, and that may expect testing versions of libraries etc. I would try the bookworm/current stable version.

e11ie

rrygle
The last solution worked. The first one "kind of worked." It showed the 3.x.x versions, but none of them were 3.1.2. The only thing left to do after installing it with pip is using the following command pip install python-vlc as prompted by OpenLP upon startup. I did it, restarted the app and now everything works, at last!
Thank you!
God bless!

rrygle

You could possibly also try the install command here, but that's a long shot. You may have to install pip, the python package manager.

https://pypi.org/project/OpenLP/

rrygle

Glad it helped!