Uggh, it's an LTS thing? Yeah, well then it's my fault entirely. Maybe I shouldn't've gone for the LTS install.
And yeah, I've already installed the most recent version. On Dec 18, 2017 10:39 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > On 2017-12-18 19:14-0500 <Alexander G. Riccio> wrote: > > I'm not sure who maintains the Ubuntu cmake package, but I *just* installed >> it, and cmake --version reported 3.5.1... a little bit out of date. >> > > If you look at > <https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=cmake&searchon= > names&suite=all§ion=all> > the various Ubuntu distribution versions called xenial, zesty, artful, and > bionic provide respectively CMake versions 3.5.1, 3.7.2, 3.9.1, and > 3.9.5. And similar situations occur for all other Linux distros. > > So if you upgrade to a later Ubuntu version you will automatically get > access to a later CMake version. But such upgrades are non-trivial so a > compromise that allows you to delay doing such an upgrade for a while > would be to build and use a newer version of CMake yourself. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ >
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