[Gmsh] updating gmsh

[lukshuntim at gmail.com]

On Thursday, December 12, 2013 07:06 AM, michele cavalerin wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I installed gmsh on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS by typing sudo apt-get install gmsh.
>
> It worked, but I installed version 2.5.1. I tried to use 'svn update '
> to update to latest version, but I'm missing something in the procedure:
> probably I'm doing it in a wrong way..

Doing 'svn update' only updates the development src already checked out. 
You will have to compile it.

>
> Is there a way to update the current version?

For the official ubuntu version, you may have to wait for the package 
maintainer to updates it and upload it to the repository, which may or 
may not happen. Maybe you can file a bug report to make a request.

There're links to compiled binaries on the gmsh home page if you want 
them. Look for "current stable release". You may have to uninstall the 
ubuntu package to avoid calling the old version instead.

Regards,
ST
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