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The most common situation is when you want to install the latest version of cmake, but your Operating System's repositories are not updated. For example, in my case I have a laptop running Ubuntu 16.04, and when I executed the command sudo apt install cmake the installed version was 3.5.1; instead of, 3.13.0 which is the current version at cmake.org.

How can I get the latest version?

Well, we can install it by following one of this methods:

A. Building and Installing (recommended)

A-1. Uninstall the default version provided by Ubuntu's package manager:

sudo apt remove cmake

sudo apt purge --auto-remove cmake

A-2. Go to the official CMake webpage, then download and extract the latest version. Update the version and build variables in the following command to get the desired version:

version=3.13

build=0

mkdir ~/temp

cd ~/temp

wget https://cmake.org/files/v$version/cmake-$version.$build.tar.gz

tar -xzvf cmake-$version.$build.tar.gz

cd cmake-$version.$build/

A-3. Install the extracted source by running:

./bootstrap

make -j4

sudo make install

A-4. Test your new cmake version.

$ cmake --version

Results of cmake --version:

cmake version 3.13.X



CMake suite maintained and supported by Kitware (kitware.com/cmake).

B. Using binary files (cmake-gui wont work well)

B-1. Uninstall the default version provided by Ubuntu's package manager as in A-1.

B-2. Go to the official CMake webpage, then download and install the latest .sh version in opt/cmake. Update the version and build variables in the following command to get the desired version:

version=3.13

build=0

mkdir ~/temp

cd ~/temp

wget https://cmake.org/files/v$version/cmake-$version.$build-Linux-x86_64.sh 

sudo mkdir /opt/cmake

sudo sh cmake-$version.$build-Linux-x86_64.sh --prefix=/opt/cmake

B-3. Add the installed binary link to /usr/local/bin/cmake by running this:

sudo ln -s /opt/cmake/bin/cmake /usr/local/bin/cmake

B-4. Test your new cmake version as in A-4.

Note

In 3.13.X the X represents the last part of the version that we defined as build. The build may change if cmake is updated. According to the official webpage the Latest Release is 3.13.0. If you want the Previous Release 3.12.4 just replace the version and build parameters like this:

version=3.12

build=4

First uninstall any cmake package previously installed. Then:

1. Go to http://www.cmake.org/download/ and download the latest .sh installer



2. 
   

   Install it (for example) in opt/cmake by running

   
   
   

   sudo mkdir /opt/cmake
   
   sudo sh <installer filename> --prefix=/opt/cmake
   
   

   
   



3. Add the cmake bin directory to your path: https://askubuntu.com/a/170240/359343

Installed in this way, cmake-gui looks a little bit horrible, if you find a way to fix it please feel free to edit this answer.

Just in case if someone need to install latest CMAKE in a docker image (like me..). In this case is 3.7.2, but you can check here https://cmake.org/download/ as already pointed out

#install latest cmake

ADD https://cmake.org/files/v3.7/cmake-3.7.2-Linux-x86_64.sh /cmake-3.7.2-Linux-x86_64.sh

RUN mkdir /opt/cmake

RUN sh /cmake-3.7.2-Linux-x86_64.sh --prefix=/opt/cmake --skip-license

RUN ln -s /opt/cmake/bin/cmake /usr/local/bin/cmake

RUN cmake --version

You can also execute the following:

export fn=/tmp/cmake.sh && ls $fn && (echo "use previous $fn? Enter for yes, ctrl+d for no." && read) || (wget -O $fn http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.0/cmake-3.0.2-Linux-i386.sh 1>&2) && (cd /opt && sudo bash ${fn} && echo sudo ln -f -s /opt/cmake*/bin/cmake /usr/local/bin/cmake && cd -)

This script

• fetches make 3.0.2
  ** if it was already downloaded in this session, then you might reuse it if you did not finish the installation


• then it copies makes link to the bin cmake.

I love the following way because you can get a recent version without much trouble.

Kitware seems to officially support a pip wheels release. So you can get latest cmake just by doing:

pip install --upgrade cmake

Here is the blog about it:
https://blog.kitware.com/cmake-python-wheels/

Remove old version using:

apt-get purge cmake

Download binary version of cmake archived in a tarball. You can use new version of cmake by adding its bin directory path to $PATH. An alternative solution is to extract tar.gz package and go to the directory made after extracting and run following commands:

cp -r bin /usr/

cp -r doc /usr/share/

cp -r man /usr/share/

cp -r share /usr/

The second method is the same as installation process which .deb package does!

For a Docker container, best run

RUN wget -qO- "https://cmake.org/files/v3.12/cmake-3.12.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz" | 

  tar --strip-components=1 -xz -C /usr/local

Adjust the version, if needed.

Install the latest version of cmake from backports, where many latest versions reside. The particular backports depends on your current OS version. For example, running Debian Stretch, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

Then install from this backport, aka:

sudo apt-get -t stretch-backports install -y cmake