I usually run Okular on Linux Mint 17 at home and use annotations a lot. Configuring those by right-clicking on the annotations and there is a menu to config them.

However, today I am at work running Ubuntu 14 something and I installed Okular with sudo apt-get install okular.

Here I can bring up the "review" and use the predefined annotations, but it seems impossible to configure my own since nothing happens when I right click on the annotations as I normally do.

Any idea what is wrong?

About Okular tells the following:

Okular
Version 0.14.3
Using KDE Development Platform 4.8.5 (4.8.5)


Edit: I noticed that I can edit each annotation separately after creating it. For example: highlighting text with the pre-set yellow highlighter, then after I highlight I can right-click the yellow highlighting on the text to change the color and opacity. This enables much of what I want but with a huge amount of work since every highlight has to be edited separately. Is this just old functionality of Okular?

Edit2 : Yes, apparently I just have an old version. Now the question is how to get a later one. Changing OS is not an option.

https://okular.kde.org/news.php#itemOkular021released
"The 0.17 version of Okular has been released together with KDE Applications 4.11 release. This release introduces new features like undo/redo support for forms and annotations and configurable review tools. Okular 0.17 is a recommended update for everyone using Okular."