I know that sourceforge doesnt have the best security track record
Is it safe thought to use the dmd ubuntu repository hosted there

[code]
sudo wget http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/d-apt.list
wget -qO - https://dlang.org/d-keyring.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dmd-bin
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On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 00:21:45 UTC, Ali wrote:
> I know that sourceforge doesnt have the best security track record
> Is it safe thought to use the dmd ubuntu repository hosted there
>
> [code]
> sudo wget http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/d-apt.list
> wget -qO - https://dlang.org/d-keyring.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dmd-bin
> [/code]

I stopped using it. It kept causing error messages in my package manager and I couldn't update it properly so I've just stuck to downloading the updates on release.

On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 18:23 +0000, Michael via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 00:21:45 UTC, Ali wrote:
> > I know that sourceforge doesnt have the best security track
> > record
> > Is it safe thought to use the dmd ubuntu repository hosted there
> > 
> > [code]
> > sudo wget
> > http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list
> > -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/d-apt.list
> > wget -qO - https://dlang.org/d-keyring.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
> > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dmd-bin
> > [/code]
> 
> I stopped using it. It kept causing error messages in my package manager and I couldn't update it properly so I've just stuck to downloading the updates on release.

If we are talking about D-Apt here  http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/  it seems to be working fine for me on Debian Sid.  2.075 just installed this morning.

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On Monday, 24 July 2017 at 11:02:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 18:23 +0000, Michael via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 
>> I stopped using it. It kept causing error messages in my package manager and I couldn't update it properly so I've just stuck to downloading the updates on release.
>
> If we are talking about D-Apt here  http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/  it seems to be working fine for me on Debian Sid.  2.075 just installed this morning.

I think it would be better to have a PPA that is hosted on launchpad

On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 19:16 +0000, Ali via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, 24 July 2017 at 11:02:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 18:23 +0000, Michael via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > 
> > > I stopped using it. It kept causing error messages in my package manager and I couldn't update it properly so I've just stuck to downloading the updates on release.
> > 
> > If we are talking about D-Apt here http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/  it seems to be working fine for me on Debian Sid.  2.075 just installed this morning.
> 
> I think it would be better to have a PPA that is hosted on launchpad

Launchpad is not a place Debian and Mint folk think of going is it? Ubuntu yes, but not others.

I think D-Apt should be hosted at dlang.org.

Along with a Fedora repository.

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On Monday, 24 July 2017 at 11:02:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 18:23 +0000, Michael via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 
>> I stopped using it. It kept causing error messages in my package manager and I couldn't update it properly so I've just stuck to downloading the updates on release.
>
> If we are talking about D-Apt here  http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/  it seems to be working fine for me on Debian Sid.  2.075 just installed this morning.

I stopped using it a while ago as it was constantly causing me problems with being unable to check for new package updates. It was right when sourceforge was issuing security warnings and I couldn't be bothered to try and deal with it.

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 10:01:17 UTC, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 24 July 2017 at 11:02:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 18:23 +0000, Michael via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> 
>>> I stopped using it. It kept causing error messages in my package manager and I couldn't update it properly so I've just stuck to downloading the updates on release.
>>
>> If we are talking about D-Apt here  http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/  it seems to be working fine for me on Debian Sid.  2.075 just installed this morning.
>
> I stopped using it a while ago as it was constantly causing me problems with being unable to check for new package updates. It was right when sourceforge was issuing security warnings and I couldn't be bothered to try and deal with it.

Just following up on this, because I had the same problem:

1. Use wget or curl to download the .deb right from the archive

wget http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2018/dmd_2.080.0-0_i386.deb

2. Try to install it with dpkg

dpkg -i dmd_2.080.0-0_i386.deb

### If you experience errors, add the following steps. If not, skip them.

3. Update your cache

sudo apt-get update

4. Download the dependencies, if you need to. In my case, I needed libc6-dev and gcc, which you *would normally* install like so:

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev gcc

But I had errors when trying to do that, which were resolved by running:

sudo apt --fix-broken install

###

5. Finally, run `dmd --version` to test that it works!