As @muru said
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you can download the util-linux package from Arch Linux and extract
column from it.
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Download the latest version here and extract the archive in a temporary folder.
tar xf util-linux-2.26.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -C /tmp/util-linux-2.26.1
And copy the content of /tmp/util-linux-2.26.1/usr/
into /usr/local
cp -R /tmp/util-linux-2.26.1/usr/* /usr/local
Test with, eg.:
% column --version
column von util-linux 2.26.1
I had a problem with that, but the error can be ignored.
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
util-linux
package from Arch Linux and extractcolumn
from it. Removingbsdmainutils
will causeman-db
to be removed - whether that's a bad thing depends on how often you use man pages.man
yourself too.