JQ: How to install JQ 1.5 in Ubuntu?

JQ is a great JSON Query tool. More info about the tool you find at the site https://stedolan.github.io/jq/.

In Ubuntu 16.04 you can install jq 1.3 by running command:

sudo apt-get install jq

To install jq 1.5 you can run the command below:

curl -O -L https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.5/jq-linux64

chmod +x jq-linux64

sudo mv jq-linux64 /usr/bin/jq

Have a good day.