<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Raymond Wan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rwan.work@gmail.com" target="_blank">rwan.work@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Alexander,<br>
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Alan W. Irwin<br>
<<a href="mailto:irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca">irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 2017-12-18 19:14-0500 <Alexander G. Riccio> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I'm not sure who maintains the Ubuntu cmake package, but I *just*<br>
>> installed<br>
>> it, and cmake --version reported 3.5.1... a little bit out of date.<br>
><br>
><br>
> If you look at<br>
> <<a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=cmake&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://packages.ubuntu.com/<wbr>search?keywords=cmake&<wbr>searchon=names&suite=all&<wbr>section=all</a>><br>
> the various Ubuntu distribution versions called xenial, zesty, artful, and<br>
> bionic provide respectively CMake versions 3.5.1, 3.7.2, 3.9.1, and<br>
> 3.9.5.  And similar situations occur for all other Linux distros.<br>
><br>
> So if you upgrade to a later Ubuntu version you will automatically get<br>
> access to a later CMake version. But such upgrades are non-trivial so a<br>
> compromise that allows you to delay doing such an upgrade for a while<br>
> would be to build and use a newer version of CMake yourself.<br>
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</span>In addition to what Alan said, another alternative to compiling it<br>
yourself is to install Anaconda into your home directory and then to<br>
install cmake from that.  For example, you can see here what is<br>
available to you:  <a href="https://anaconda.org/search?q=cmake" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://anaconda.org/search?q=<wbr>cmake</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This seems too much to me. Seriously, Anaconda for binary package of cmake ?</div><div>I have been using cmake's own binary packages for a long time. Never had once an issue with them?<br></div><div>You get them for those three OSes(Linux, macx, windows)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Ray<br>
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