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 instal         


        

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)