On Sat, 2017-06-17 at 08:27 +0000, Sebastien Alaiwan via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 03:53:18 UTC, Mike B Johnson wrote: > > When a new user goes to start using D for the first time, D is > > a PITA to get working! Don't believe me?!?! > > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux (testing). Here's the installation > process for the 3 major D compilers. > > $ apt install gdc > $ gdc my_first_program.d
Or use aptitude, which I believe remains the Debian preferred high- level tool. > GDC is too old for you? Fine, let's use ldc: > > $ apt install ldc > $ ldc2 my_first_program.d Definitely, caveat aptitude. > Or if you want the bleeding edge version of D: > > (download dmd .deb package from dlang.org) > $ dpkg -i dmd_*******.deb > $ rdmd my_first_program.d I wonder if it is better to use the d-apt repository for DMD rather than downloading. Downloading is always a pain for updating packages. http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ OK so it is on SourceForge, but it does work. > Debian maintainers, one word: Thank you! That's two words. :-) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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