OpenSSH 7.4 on Ubuntu 16.04

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Installing OpenSSH 7.4 on Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt install -y build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev
wget "http://mirrors.evowise.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-7.4p1.tar.gz"
tar xfz openssh-7.4p1.tar.gz
cd openssh-7.4p1
./configure
make
sudo make install

This worked where nothing else would, thanks

@Henry-E glad that it worked

thank you - prevents me from polluting my laptop with repositories I do not want to have

Any advice on pulling the branch from GitHub and generating the configure script yourself? I'm not about to install source code hosted by random companies and call it secure.

The INSTALL file says to run autoreconf, but when I do, no configure script is created.

You can also get the download link from openssh.com - but the checksum from this download is fine. After downloading these are the exact intructions to install it on your system. This way i updated from 7.2 to 7.7.

Godsend Amigo!

Awesome, thanks for the time saver! Seems so obvious after you see it :-)

I ended up having to use a mirror - e.g. https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/
and note that it may install to /usr/local/bin/ssh (causing confusion as you may still have a /usr/bin/ssh in your path and you will wonder why there was no upgrade)

I thank you very, very, very much

For reasons unknown to me, I had OpenSSL 1.1.1d on my machine, and it seems the first version to support that is 7.9. I used the openbsd mirror and it worked great after restarting the bash session and fixing ~/.ssh/config permissions :)

Leaving this for Google searches: Just installed SSH 7.9 in an Ubuntu Xenial / Linux Mint Sarah.

the link has been 404.

the link is works for me
https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-7.4p1.tar.gz