possible to update bash to version 4.1 on 8.04 LTS ?

[Rigved Rakshit]

>
> I've been having a bunch of issues with Lucid and have dropped back to
> Hardy to see if they persist.


Have you tried a later version, like 11.10, to see if these problems have
been fixed. I am asking this because Ubuntu 8.04's support ended on 12 May
2011 for desktops. But, if you are on a server, then there is no problem.


> But I need to have bash >= 4.1 and have
> not found a way to update the version (3.2) on Hardy.  Is there one?
>

Bash 4.1 will also need some updated dependencies. So, to use bash 4.1 on
Hardy, you will need to use the updated versions of all the dependencies of
bash. In case you want to do this anyway, just download all the .deb files
(of bash and its dependencies) from
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/shells/bash. This page also has links to
the download pages of it's dependencies. Just go ahead and download/install
all of these dependencies (and in turn, the dependencies of the
dependencies).

Best Regards,
Rigved Rakshit
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