How to upgrade iproute2 to the latest version?

[Tom H]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Qin, Xiaohong <Xiaohong.Qin at emc.com> wrote:
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tom H
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:09 PM
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> Subject: Re: How to upgrade iproute2 to the latest version?
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Qin, Xiaohong <Xiaohong.Qin at emc.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to upgrade iproute2 to the latest version (12/11/2012 release).
>> I tried apt-get update, apt-get install iproute-dev but no difference.
>
> You can either add raring to your sources.list and mess around
> with apt-pinning to pull iproute from there with apt-get, you can
> download the raring deb and install it with dpkg, or you can pull
> the raring iproute source and rebuild it.

Please don't top post.

In my case, the link is
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/iproute/