The current recommended way of installing dmd on linux only works if the user has root privileges. Trying to figure out how to install it alternatively really is somewhat tricky.

It would be far better if the distribution were self-contained in such a waythat copying files to other directories is not necessary. One simple way to do so is:

* rename dmd/bin/dmd to dmd/bin/dmd.bin

* place an executable shellscript dmd/bin/dmd there instead
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#!/bin/sh
BINDIR=`dirname $0`
TOPDIR=`dirname $BINDIR`
export DFLAGS="-I${TOPDIR}/src/phobos -L-L${TOPDIR}/lib"
exec ${BINDIR}/dmd.bin "$@"
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That's it.

Now, the ultimate simplicity would come if there were a linux version of dmd packed as .tar.gz with unnecessary windows files removed and the executable flags correctly set. Such a file is 1.65 meg instead of 2.78 meg and you don't have to do anything when installing it.

> Now, the ultimate simplicity would come if there were a linux version of dmd packed as .tar.gz with unnecessary windows files removed and the executable flags correctly set. Such a file is 1.65 meg instead of 2.78 meg and you don't have to do anything when installing it.

Yep, this would be realy sweet!