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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/2/24 20:20, Daniel Wilkerson
wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I am running Ubuntu.
$ uname -srvo
Linux 6.2.0-39-generic #40~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov
16 10:53:04 UTC 2 GNU/Linux
My verilator install is from August 2020, so I wanted a new version.
$ sudo apt-get update
...
$ sudo apt-get install verilator
...
verilator is already the newest version (4.038-1).
That is years out of date. Verilator 5.020 2024-01-01 was just released.
The verilator people say that it is up to the Ubuntu maintainers to
update the apt package, so I thought I would ping you and suggest
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<p>Ubuntu almost never releases full version updates for software in
the official repositories. Bug and security fixes are backported
to older versions of the software for the sake of stability. It
may be possible for a new version of software to be provided via
the backports repository, but in my experience this is rarely
done.</p>
<p>In Verilator's documentation, it specifies "Using a
distribution’s package manager is the easiest way to get started.
(Note packages are unlikely to have the most recent version, so
Git Quick Install might be a better alternative.)" You might
consider using that option instead. Alternatively, if there is a
particular bug in Verilator that is impeding you, you can report
it as a bug using the ubuntu-bug tool. (Note that new features are
unlikely to be backported into the official repos. This is one of
the advantages of Ubuntu - things don't change much unless you
upgrade to a more recent release of Ubuntu. The downside is that
you get old software unless you get it from the developers or
alternate third-party sources.)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap">
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Daniel
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Aaron Rainbolt
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