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General => Feature requests => Topic started by: bmionescu on February 04, 2025, 02:19:59 am

Title: Update apt-get so that it installs 3.x as the latest version instead of 2.6.1
Post by: bmionescu on February 04, 2025, 02:19:59 am

Not sure if this qualifies as a feature, but it is at least a request, and not a question :)

I installed SFML on Ubuntu via the command line (`sudo apt-get install libsfml-dev`), and made sure to run the apt-get update command first. It says the latest version is 2.6.1., though as of writing, the latest version available on Git is 3.x. Unless I'm missing something about how apt-get works, I think it needs updating by the SFML devs?

Edit: Apparently the SFML version available in apt-get is not necessarily controlled by the SFML devs themselves?

Title: Re: Update apt-get so that it installs 3.x as the latest version instead of 2.6.1
Post by: eXpl0it3r on February 04, 2025, 08:23:16 am

The packages follow the Debian / Ubuntu life-cycle and so the latest available version is lagging behind a bit.

Debian Experimental has already a 3.0.0 version: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/libsfml-dev
This will eventually become part of one of the next OS releases (for Ubuntu & Debian).

Until then, you're best off using the SFML CMake Template (https://github.com/SFML/cmake-sfml-project) or building from source.