Ubuntu – How to install ack-grep 2.0 with apt-get

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Currently I'm using ack-grep 1.92. Now I want to use ack-grep 2.+.

Official documentation says that I can install ack-grep 2.0 with apt-get, but when I try to install, it says it's already the newest version.

I also tried install it with a specified version like:

sudo apt-get install ack-grep 2.10

It installs something, but ack-grep is still 1.92.

How can I install the newest version?

Best Answer

You can't install yet ack-grep 2.10 using apt-get because ack-grep 2.10 is not yet included in Ubuntu repositories. To see what versions are available in repositories, you can use the following command:

apt-cache showpkg ack-grep

But you can install by downloading it from here:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/ack-grep

It's a deb file, so you can be interested also by:

How do I install a .deb file via the command line?

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