Install

Note: Remove task using the Ubuntu Software Centre before installing from source.

Source

Prequisites

Install CMake using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install cmake uuid-dev

Note

libgnutls-dev is required for the sync command, but is no longer available on Ubuntu 16.10. To work around this issue, we build without sync -DENABLE_SYNC=OFF

Download

Download the Source code tarball from Taskwarrior Download:

cd ~/Downloads/taskwarrior/
wget http://www.taskwarrior.org/download/task-2.0.0.tar.gz

Install

cd ~/repo/src/
tar xzf ~/Downloads/taskwarrior/task-2.0.0.tar.gz
cd task-X.Y.Z
cmake . -DENABLE_SYNC=OFF
make
sudo make install