So I was finally going to give the animation Beta a try, I found that it had installed Karbon along side, that's fine it's not a program I intend to use, but I can live with it. but when I was later going to start writing in Calligra author I noticed that both that and calligra Braindump was missing form my computer (those being besides Krita the only Calligra software I use).

Reinstalling author required me to remove the animation Beta. Are these forever irreconcilable? there probably was a warning, that this would happen, that I in my eager clicked away without reading, when I installed the animation beta. Will I have to wait for the full krita 3.0 (or 3.1) release for these software not to affect each other?

i'm running Kubuntu 15.10 if that matters. maybe I’ve been reading in the wrong places but I haven't found anyone else writing about this, and the animation beta seems well tested.

Yes -- until 3.0, Krita was part of Calligra, and that means that if you install a special version of Krita, your distribution's calligra gets removed. The Calligra guys are removing Author in 3.0, btw, since it wasn't maintained anymore.

Sorry for non-constructive flame. But it sounds extremely weird for users: "new version of painting program removes old text editor, due [programming magic]"

That's how Linux distributions work. But, as I said, the problem is gone with 3.0.