The current latest version of CMake is 3.15.3.. Update cmake to the latest version in Ubuntu, the process is as follows:
1. Uninstall the old version of CMake that has been installed [not required]
apt-get autoremove cmake
2. File download and decompression:
wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.9/cmake-3.15.3-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Unzip:
tar zxvf cmake-3.15.3-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
View the unzipped directory:
tree -L 2 cmake-3.15.3-Linux-x86_64
cmake-3.15.3-Linux-x86_64
├── bin
│ ├── ccmake
│ ├── cmake
│ ├── cmake-gui
│ ├── cpack
│ └── ctest
├── doc
│ └── cmake
├── man
│ ├── man1
│ └── man7
└── share
├── aclocal
├── applications
├── cmake-3.9
├── icons
└── mime
12 directories, 5 files
There are various product programs of the cmake family under bin.
3. Create a soft link
Note: The file path can be specified, generally choose /opt
or /usr
path, here choose /opt
mv cmake-3.15.3-Linux-x86_64 /opt/cmake-3.15.3
mv cmake-3.15.3-Linux-x86_64 /opt/cmake-3.15.3
ln -sf /opt/cmake-3.15.3/bin/* /usr/bin/
Then execute the command to check:
>>>cmake --version
cmake version 3.15.3
CMake suite maintained and supported by Kitware (kitware.com/cmake).
>>>
>>>cmake-gui
OK. Now the latest version of cmake is successfully installed.