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I just noticed that Ubuntu 15.04 is using bsd version of column command and its very old i.e. its from 2004. But on arch linux the column command is of util-linux is updated on 2014.
So I have two questions: why Ubuntu 15.04 (debian jessie, both being latest release) is giving the old version binaries?

Is there any way to update these kind of core utils?

Alex Jones
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As @muru said

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you can download the util-linux package from Arch Linux and extract
column from it.
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Download the latest version here and extract the archive in a temporary folder.

tar xf util-linux-2.26.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -C /tmp/util-linux-2.26.1

And copy the content of /tmp/util-linux-2.26.1/usr/ into /usr/local

cp -R /tmp/util-linux-2.26.1/usr/* /usr/local

Test with, eg.:

% column --version                                          
column von util-linux 2.26.1

I had a problem with that, but the error can be ignored.

tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'SCHILY.fflags'
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