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Tianxu Zang
Tianxu Zang

Reputation: 41

how to install cmake file offline without updates on ubuntu?

My OS is ubuntu and i try to install the cmake file above version 3.1. I have cmake version 2.8.12 in my system. It is possible to update or install cmake 3.1 without get ubuntu system updated(sudo apt-get update or upgrade)? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2985

Answers (2)

ollo
ollo

Reputation: 25370

You can download the installer here. Scroll down to Binary distributions and there Linux x86_64. There are two versions:

  • *.sh: Install script; execute and you are done
  • *.tar.gz*: Contains all the binaries etc.; extract and if necessary add the path to PATH variable

TL;DR

curl -sSL https://cmake.org/files/v3.9/cmake-3.9.4-Linux-x86_64.sh -o install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
sudo ./install.sh --prefix=/usr/local --skip-license

Tips: You can change the install path with the --prefix option. You can pick any CMake version by changing the download link.

Upvotes: 1

Ray
Ray

Reputation: 930

You're on Ubuntu 14.04? You really should upgrade to a newer LTS like 16.04...

Having said that, I guess you're trying to install a program that has a minimum cmake requirement of 3.1? You could try to install CMake from source by downloading it from here. I personally think that's your best option.

There are ways with apt-get to update just cmake but I worry there there are too many dependencies. For example, if you look at the list of dependencies for CMake in Ubuntu 14.04, there is libc6, gcc, etc. These are important packages for any system so I guess that it will be hard to update just CMake using Ubuntu's packaging system while keeping them at their current versions.

You can try downloading a later version of CMake by looking here but this is a very bad idea. And I think it will fail since when you install it with "dpkg -i", it will continually complaining about a dependency that you're not installing. But I'm just letting you know as another option.

Upvotes: 0

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