>From: [email protected] >On Thursday, December 12, 2013 07:06 AM, michele cavalerin wrote: >> Good evening, >> >> I installed gmsh on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS by typing sudo apt-get install gmsh. >> >> Is there a way to update the current version? > >For the official ubuntu version, you may have to wait for the package >maintainer to updates it and upload it to the repository, which may or >may not happen. Maybe you can file a bug report to make a request.
Michele, A "bug report" is not needed/warranted for this process. Its "not a bug"! You might consider/need to update from 12.04, which is now a few years old, to the latest "Long Term System" which is probably 13.10. You may need to do this in three steps: 12.10, 13.04, 13.10 to avoid "clobbering" your current install. This process would likely have the side effect of updating to a later release of gmsh. Check the launchpad <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+package/gmsh> database for more information on your specific hardware platform. At a glance, 13.10 seems to distribute gmsh 2.8.2, which is likely a later version than you currently deploy. You did not say which gmsh you currently run: "precise" <12.04> only supports gmsh 2.5. Updating your system will enable you to <continue to> use binary distributions, rather than compiling from source; which is simpler to install; and the dependencies are already "worked out for you" by the package maintainer. Compiling from source requires you to secure the needed libraries -- in specific versions. See "apt-get install" for more details. --frankb _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
