Hello,
I am using the old version as an appimage because found no other easy way to install it on arch linux
But I do not find a version 2.0 appimage. It seems only a .deb is available.
Not a major problem because the old version is still working. Just wondering if there is a way to test the new version.
Best and thanks
There are two unofficial packages of QPrompt 2.0 on the AUR. I recommend using either one of them for now:
As of early 2026 these packages are affected by a nasty bug that only manifests itself when using Qt 6.10.0 through 6.10.2. The bug causes QPrompt’s RAM consumption to rapidly increase (a soft memory leak). This bug is fixed in Qt 6.10.3, but until that comes out the AUR packages will be affected by the leak. You can work around it by going to “Screen” in QPrompt and unchecking “Enable projection”, which prevents the bug from occurring.
There’s also another aesthetic bug with modern version of the Kirigami Framework, which adds padding where there shouldn’t be none. Some of them have been worked around in QPrompt, others need to be fixed in Kirigami. I’ve reported the issues upstream, and provided detail on where they stem from, but nothing appears to have been done about this one in particular. 515463 – ToolBarPageHeader vertically offset when using Qt Styles
Aside from using the AUR to install the unofficial package, the only other option is to compile QPrompt from source yourself, ideally using manually downloaded slightly older versions of Qt libraries. This is a bit of a pain to do if you’re not package maintainer or a developer, but it can be gratifying since it allows you to keep up to date with the latest changes at all times.
I wasn’t able to get AppImage to work for QPrompt 2.0, due to AppImage tooling having issues bundling Qt Quick dependencies. Debugging that would’ve consumed too much time, so AppImage support is officially discontinued. That said, I don’t discard the possibility of producing a new AppImage someday, but I don’t plan on doing so any time soon.
The Deb package is the only official package for QPrompt 2.0 for Linux. I have Flatpak and Snap packages ready to go, but they’re also affected by the aforementioned bugs, and until they’re fixed and the fixes become a part of Flathub’s runtime and of Snap’s KDE runtime or of the Ubuntu 26.04 Snap base image, I cannot produce a bug-free release with universal packaging formats. Which is a shame, because QPrompt is a Linux app that gets ported to other systems, but now Linux has the least number of systems being supported.
Package maintainers are welcome to help.