Yes, Tiberium has already mentioned that list, thank you. The point was to do
it with one no-brain command. If not, I'm fine with the sources from github.
geo555 you can pick packages from Artful Aardvark (the current stable release)
or Bionic Beaver. They both ship 0.17.2 and are imported from Debian. There is
also HTML documentation in the nim-doc package.
[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nim](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nim)
> It's just an old version in Xenial
I see. Thank you! So it's an old Ubuntu for some reason couldn't find the
latest build of Nim = Ubuntu's fault.
> PPA
Sorry, I don't understand that. I just tried to see how it's on Ubuntu and
since they have nearly automatic install and update, I thought i
Ubuntu isn't a rolling distro so all of its packages are usually behind. This
is more prominent for some packages like Nim because we release relatively
often and each new release has many new features.
There are many ways to get around this. Ubuntu has a concept of PPAs, but I'm
not aware of o
And I uninstalled the 0.12 and built the 0.17.2 from the sources. It went well
and as described, so many kudos to that (although it gets a bit strange in
directory c_code, but ok, it works in the end). But that's not what I asked,
sorry. The question was if apt-get install nim was going to insta
I use choosenim for all platforms.
[https://github.com/dom96/choosenim](https://github.com/dom96/choosenim)
On Ubuntu, I ran
$ sudo apt-get install nim
and it installed nim ok, but it's version 0.12.0 (2015-11-02) [Linux: i386].
Isn't it a bit old? Anybody plans to upgrade it? I mean automatic no-brain
installation with apt-get install nim, w/o downloading the sources and
compiling them myself.
Tha
