ugrep PPA, snap or flatpack?

[Update: Please follow the instuctions in the accepted answer. A PPA, snap or flatpack is not necessary if you install from the source code.]

Is there a PPA that has ugrep executables available for Ubuntu 18.04?

The Github repo only has links for Debian .deb files for various architectures, and I cannot install that on Ubuntu 18.04. The ugrep release available on packages.debian.org is v2.1 - quite old (current is 2.5) but for Ubuntu 18.04 this still seems to be too new:

sudo dpkg -i ugrep_2.1.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 912390 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack ugrep_2.1.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ugrep (2.1.1+dfsg-1) over (2.1.1+dfsg-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ugrep: ugrep depends on libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0); however: Package libgcc-s1 is not installed. ugrep depends on libstdc++6 (>= 9); however: Version of libstdc++6:amd64 on system is 8.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.
dpkg: error processing package ugrep (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing: ugrep

ugrep tagline:

NEW ultra fast grep with interactive query UI: search file systems, source code, text, binary files, archives (cpio/tar/pax/zip), compressed files (gz/Z/bz2/lzma/xz/lz4), documents, fuzzy search, and more. A faster, user-friendly replacement for GNU/BSD grep. )

1 Answer

Just go ahead and build it, it's not hard. I'll walk you through it.

1. Go to .
2. Click on "Code" and download ugrep-master.zip.
3. Open the download folder.
4. Open ugrep-master.zip.
5. Drag the ugrep-master folder out of the zip.
6. Open the new ugrep-master folder in the terminal.
7. Enter ./build.sh and let it finish.
8. Enter sudo make install and let it finish.
9. Type man ugrep to make sure it has installed properly.

That's it. It's straightforward and installs just fine on 18.04. See the following image:

Note: You'll probably need to install 'build-essential', if you've not already done so. It's just the following command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Anyhow, there's no real need for a .deb with this one. It's really easy to compile and install. Just follow the above directions and everything should go fine.