Wrong version from Ubuntu 18.04 ppa and missing text feature

[DaVukovic]

Flameshot version

From the Ubuntu 18.04 ppa I got Flameshot 0.5.1-2 installed. Opening the Flameshot information shows something different. See:

So I'm not in which way I'm should follow this issue template and I know how annoying ignoring an issue template can be ;)

Describe the bug

AFAICT (and I tried to search hard for it), there's no text-tool available on Ubuntu 18.04. I'm using Flameshot on Ubuntu 16.04 and the text-tool is available there. But no matter what I do, I can't find it using Flameshot on Ubuntu 18.04 installed from PPA. Even the configuration doesn't show anything I might be able to enable.

any hint is welcome ;)

And thanks in advance.

System Information

davu@davu-Laptop-E-series:~$ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic
davu@davu-Laptop-E-series:~$ 

[holazt]

@DaVukovic try https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot#installation opensuse software repository.
flameshot v0.6.0 contains text feature.
flameshot release log: https://flameshot.js.org/#/changelog

[nettum]

Do you know if 0.6.x will be released for bionic beaver on the official ubuntu repo?
As mentioned I see I can download a .deb from the Opensuse repo that is 0.6.0 👍

[DaVukovic]

@ZetaoYang

Thanks for you answer. Funnily enough, I have version 0.5.0.182-g337aef4 installed on 16.04 (I compiled that some time ago) and that already had the text feature.

I have to admit that I haven't followed the full development and if the text feature was reverted for everything < v0.5 and if so I have to apologize for not noticing it. But I expected that a newer version would also have that feature. Hence I was happy to see that version at the ubuntu repos ;).

Anyway. Thanks. I'll purge the Ubuntu ppa version and will compile from source.

Issue can be closed

[holazt]

@DaVukovic You can close this issue.

[matiaso]

I had the same issue, I deleted the config file and relaunched it and both appeared. Config file is located there:

.config/Dharkael/flameshot.ini

[Jackiexiao]

But I expected that a newer version would also have that feature. Hence I was happy to see that version at the ubuntu repos ;).

hope too

[Jackiexiao]

sudo apt remove flameshot
sudo apt install g++ build-essential qt5-default qt5-qmake qttools5-dev-tools
sudo apt install libqt5dbus5 libqt5network5 libqt5core5a libqt5widgets5 libqt5gui5 libqt5svg5-dev
sudo apt install git openssl ca-certificates
git clone https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot.git
cd flameshot
mkdir build
cd build
qmake ../
sudo make
sudo make install

[billyjbryant]

This is a bandaid, not a fix. This issue should be re-opened @DaVukovic as the version in the Debian and Ubuntu repos are not up to date, is there any way to push this?

[maurizio-omissoni]

@Jackiexiao, thank you, best way to have the last and working flameshot with text. The final flameshot file is indipendent and portable.