I find myself with a use for GNU Make's grouped target feature which made its appearance in 4.3. I am only running Ubuntu 20.04 though, so I still have 4.2.1. Is it possible to find that version of make without upgrading to 21.04?

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You can simply download newer deb-package from 21.10 repository and install it by using commands below:

cd ~/Downloads wget -c sudo apt-get install ./make_4.3-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
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You should be able to install it on any modern system using the source files:

  1. Open Terminal (if it’s not already open)
  2. Download the version you want from the GNU site: 
    wget
  3. Extract and build: 
    tar xfz make-4.3.tar.gz cd make-4.3 ./configure make
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