[Bug 1816196] [NEW] okular version in repository is too old, and fails with embedded movies

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The okular version in the repositories is version 1.3.3,
but the current version is 1.7. The version in the repos is
more than a year old, and had known bugs at the time that
it was adopted there (apparently to the frustration of the
maintainers of okular). And this version, does not have
even the capabilities of the older version that was in the
repos for Ubuntu 16.04, at least as regards movies.  It is
a bit frustrating to have a functionality that worked 
beautifully for years, that then goes away, and there is no
apparent concern on anybody's part.

If you want one that is current and works with embedded movies,
you could try the snap package.  This version is a bit more
recent (1.6.6), but somehow is even worse, since it just crashes
if you try to run an embedded movie.  You might want to compile it.  
That was fun.  It required installing a bunch of stuff, being 
careful not to ruin my existing library.  Waited several hours
to compile, and then find out it didn't work for some reason.
I gave up after wasting more than a whole day. 

Could I somehow just go back to an old version that works?

Here are some details:

Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:        18.04
okular:
  Installed: 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

** Affects: okular (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


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okular version in repository is too old, and fails with embedded movies
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1816196
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