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Synaptic just gives me version 1.7.1, but I want version 1.7.3 without the need to download and build from sources.
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Synaptic just gives me version 1.7.1, but I want version 1.7.3 without the need to download and build from sources.
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Debian and Ubuntu often do no track the absolutely latest minor revision of a package that is actively developed unless there are significant feature fixes or security updates (and even in the even of such changes they will often backport the update for the significant change to the revision they do carry rather than picking up a whole new revision. This is particularly true of Debian/Stable and Ubuntu/Released in general and Debian/Testing and Ubuntu/Next close to release time (when they are in a "feature freeze" state).
To get a later version you have a few options:
Ubuntu/Natty currently carries 1.7.2.3-2 (which probably means "1.7.2.3 with at least two back-ported updates from later revisions"), the same as Debian/Queeze.
You could also try the version from Debian/Sid (though this is currently the same version) but this is not recommended. "Unstable" is given that name for a reason - packages may be broken at any given time as it exists specifically to find significant breakages before packages are promoted to Testing.
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A way likely to work would be downloading from upstream and running the usual
$ autoreconf
$ ./configure --prefix=/PATH/WHERE/YOU/PUT/YOUR/STUFF
$ make install
inside the unpacked source directory.
EDIT
Since in your edit you now explicitly write that you do not want to build from source and want 1.7.3 tagged on 2010/10/21 things look differently.
Ubuntu's git package seems to come directly from Debian's and Debian just migrated 1.7.2.3-2 to TESTING a week ago. You might have some luck with asking for a version bump in the Debian bug tracker, and could directly use that package in Ubuntu then.
I'm lazy and prefer the usual installer way. Why there is such a nice package manager on Ubuntu Linux when I need to build from sources? For each and every application which is installed by default I get updates, but why not for Git? – Mike L. – 2010-11-10T20:06:42.877
3You get updates for git too, and just like for each and every other application it takes a while until the latest release finds it's way into the repositories. – akid – 2010-11-10T20:41:48.900
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After having added following line
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main
to /etc/apt/sources.list
I was able to install Git 1.7.2.3 using Synaptic.
1you should be careful with adding "testing" sources to sources.list -> it is better to install from source instead. – udo – 2010-11-11T15:56:44.827
I wonder why is your question not specifying the reasons why do you want a version of software newer than the one from the official repository. – vtest – 2010-11-11T09:26:07.673