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And yes, if it seems like we are moving backward, we are, in a way. I'm not going to say too much about these because I am not terribly familiar with them, although I've used a few of them. This is going to be a very brief rundown, because if I go into too much detail, I am likely to be wrong.\footnote{To be honest, I'm not even sure that the word ``container'' is the right word here because a lot of people on the internet cannot agree. Just be aware that if you research any of this on the web, be aware that you will find a lot of people who agree with my characterization (yay! I'm right!) and you will also find a lot of people who disagree with my characterization (poop! I'm wrong!). Such is life.}
\paragraph{Snap} First developed by Canonical (the for-profit company behind Ubuntu) this creates a new directory in your \texttt{\$HOME} directory to install snaps. (I did not like this at first, but okay, whatever.) One of the ideas behind snaps is that you can run different versions of the same program. Which would be handy, except that the people responsible for maintaining the snap packages do a pretty crap job of it, and most snaps are a version or two (or more) behind the current release version.
\paragraph{Flatpak} A quick look at the Flatpak home page\footnote{\kref{https://flatpak.org/}{https://flatpak.org/}} shows that they consider themselves ``The future of apps on Linus''. That's pretty confident. But the idea is pretty much the same as a snap. You first have to install \texttt{flathub}, then you download the relevant file from \kref{https://flathub.org/}{https://flathub.org/} and install it. It's not perfect, but for the one app\footnote{Paper Clip, which allows you to quickly and easily edit a pdf file's metadata. If you need to do that, I highly recommend it. See \kref{https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.diegoivan.pdf_metadata_editor}{https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.diegoivan.pdf\_metadata\_editor} for details.} I need that is only available as a Flatpak, I suppose it works well enough. But I would hate to have to install all of my software this way.
\paragraph{AppImage} Thi sis perhaps the simplest one I've used—you just download a file, make it executable, and then run it. I don't have too much of an issue with this one, but I only have a couple of apps that run from an AppImage. (Among them is the Cool Retro Terminal,\footnote{\kref{
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term}{
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term}} which takes me right back to my days in seventh grade. It's pretty cool, but depending on the day it either makes me sad or happy, so I don't use it often.
\section{What Probably Happened Here}
Dependency hell is suppposed to be a thing of the past, so I'm not quite sure why I ran into an issue with dependencies when trying to install a different version of Okular.
It's possible that the snap was configured wrong. It's also possible that I borked\footnote{I.e., I misconfigured or broke something.} something without realizing it when I was doing something else. (I do have a tendency to tinker with things under the hood.) Unlike the days of old I did not have to spend hours or days trying to figure this out. A couple of quick web searches got me up and running again.
\chapter{Coda}