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The apt-packaged version of OpenSCAD was broken for the current LTS version of ubuntu and hasn't been fixed yet. You'll need to download it from an alternative source if you want it on 18.04. Works well on 16.04 though!

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The OpenSCAD releases seem to be in chaos. I've been using an AppImage release in Ubuntu, build 9.4, since February. Later releases seem to just crash. I get the feeling I'm building on an unstable foundation. :-(

The particular problem I referred to was caused by ubuntu's packaging process though: a dependency package failed to build for some obscure architecture so they decided that the sensible course of action was to remove the package for ALL architectures.

Perhaps I'll just use AppImages like you so that I can finally upgrade off 16.04. Have you found any downsides to using the AppImaged version over the apt one? (aside from the stability issues in newer releases)

The AppImage has been great. No downsides.

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