Install jq JSON processor on Ubuntu 10.04

Question

Is there a way to install jq JSON processor on Ubuntu 10.04?

I Tried the usual sudo apt-get install jq but got the error E: Couldn\'t find package jq<

Answer 1

Download & build from source as described in https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/, last section called "From source on Linux, OS X, Cygwin, and other POSIX-like operating systems".