On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 10:16 AM Daniel Wilkerson <daniel.wilker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 That is years out of date.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 > that.
Aaron explained Ubuntu's update policy. Also see <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates>. But from the looks of things, verilator does _not_ have a lot of dependencies. You may be able to build the latest sources without much trouble. If I am parsing things correctly, it only depends on libc: $ apt-cache show verilator Package: verilator Architecture: amd64 Version: 4.038-1 Priority: optional ... Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) Recommends: libsystemc-dev Suggests: gtkwave ... Jeff -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
