Upgrading jq to 1.5 on Ubuntu

Question

So it reads here :

jq 1.5 is in the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories. Install using sudo apt-get install jq.

yet:

$ sudo apt-get install jq
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
jq is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

AND:

$ jq --version
jq version 1.3

Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

What am I missing?

thanks

Answer 1

I ended up here when googling on why my Debian 8 instance does not upgrade jq 1.4 to 1.5.

Here's my solution for anyone struggling with Debian 8 jq: Download jq from https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases and copy it manually over the currently installed jq. In my case:

wget https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.5/jq-linux64
chmod +x jq-linux64
sudo mv jq-linux64 $(which jq)

Answer 2

You're using Ubuntu LTS. The latest version of Ubuntu does have jq 1.5.

Answer 3

我想你错过了正确的回购： http ： //installion.co.uk/ubuntu/vivid/universe/j/jq/install/index.html