August 20, 2022

I'm trying to use GDC and I have GCC installed on my system. When I type GCC --version, I get this result:

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gcc (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Then I installed GDC with the command:

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sudo apt install gdc

Immediately after, I got the following warnings:

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The following additional packages will be installed:
gdc-8 libgphobos-8-dev libgphobos-dev libgphobos76 zlib1g-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gdc gdc-8 libgphobos-8-dev libgphobos-dev libgphobos76 zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 67 not upgraded.
Need to get 21.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 131 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Yeah, GDC is installed on my system now. But when I did a test and ran it, it wrote on my screen:

/*--------------------------------------------------
~/Documents/Ddili$ gdc -c dVer.d
user@debian:~/Documents/Ddili$ ./a.out
D Compiler v2.068
--------------------------------------------------*/

According to my take the impression I should use the command:

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sudo apt autoremove

I guess my apt repositories are too old! Any suggestions for an update?

SDB@79

August 20, 2022

For new release, there is (most likely) no prebuild binary packages for your system.

You need to download the source and build it yourself.