How to upgrade iproute2 to the latest version?

[Tom H]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Qin, Xiaohong <Xiaohong.Qin at emc.com> wrote:
>
> Here is the my current iproute2 version on my Ubuntu box,
>
> ip -V
> ip utility, iproute2-ss111117
>
> and here is my Ubuntu version,
>
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
> Release:        12.04
> Codename:       precise
>
> I would like to upgrade iproute2 to the latest version (12/11/2012 release).
> I tried apt-get update, apt-get install iproute-dev but no difference.

You can either add raring to your sources.list and mess around with
apt-pinning to pull iproute from there with apt-get, you can download
the raring deb and install it with dpkg, or you can pull the raring
iproute source and rebuild it.