(Assuming you are still interested in pursuing this - it does sound like you've found an acceptable workaround...)
You should download the release version of bash 5.3. There are some known issues with the rc2 version (*).
(*) By "issues", I don't really mean outright bugs - but rather things about the fact that it is "only a release candidate" such that it doesn't quite build exactly as you would expect from an actual release version.
Also, here is the configure line I use for bash:
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/bash5 --with-curses
I have had bad things happen if I don't use --with-curses (**) and also the --prefix is so that a later "make install" will install it in your home directory rather than system-wide (so you don't need to be root to do "make install")
(**) Which may require you to: apt install libncurses-dev
You should download the release version of bash 5.3. There are some known issues with the rc2 version (*).
(*) By "issues", I don't really mean outright bugs - but rather things about the fact that it is "only a release candidate" such that it doesn't quite build exactly as you would expect from an actual release version.
Also, here is the configure line I use for bash:
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/bash5 --with-curses
I have had bad things happen if I don't use --with-curses (**) and also the --prefix is so that a later "make install" will install it in your home directory rather than system-wide (so you don't need to be root to do "make install")
(**) Which may require you to: apt install libncurses-dev
Statistics: Posted by BigRedMailbox — Fri Jan 02, 2026 4:47 pm