Not able to install Scala 2.13 using apt-get

Question

I am using Ubuntu 18.04

I run the following command

sudo apt-get install scala

This installs scala 2.11.12

but this is an outdated version. The real version of the programming language is 2.13.0

I googled and googled but everything points to very old and outdated articles.

Ubuntu repositories are always far behind latest versions. Did you try to download the last official deb package, then sudo dpkg -i scala-2.13.0.deb && sudo apt install -f. See also? — Pablo Bianchi, Sep 02 '19 at 22:30
I didn't want to download manually. this way I'll always have to download by myself. I resolved the problem by installing SDKMAN. — Knows Not Much, Sep 02 '19 at 22:49

oche · Answer 1 · 2022-01-23T16:45:22.273

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As the OP noted, running apt-get installs an old version of Scala, and a solution it to use SDKMan instead.

curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash

Use sdkman to install scala

sdk install scala 2.13.8

edited Jan 23 '22 at 16:45

answered Jan 22 '22 at 19:31

oche

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