installing jq

Ubuntu-based systems

jq can be installed from the official repositories using sudo apt install jq¹, but it may not be the latest version. For jq 1.6, download the 64-bit Linux executable file from GitHub and make it executable.

Attention

On Kubuntu 18.04, building from source did not work jq 1.6 or the latest development version as of 2018-12-11. If it had worked, the following dependencies would have been required: sudo apt install autoconf libtool make. I got similar errors to those reported on an apparently resolved bug.

licensing

No rights reserved: CC0 1.0.

prior work

• The method of resolving an error by installing libtool was introduced to me by an answer on Stack Overflow by Eli.

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1. http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/#linux ↩