sudo apt-get install dmd

On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 17:31:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > I was looking at easy installation of dmd on ubuntu, and found this: > > http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ > > Should we make it part of the official distribution? > > > Andrei Ubuntu, most of the time, used with GUI. I just click on Download button of DMD, and Firefox opens it with Software Centre, and I click on Install button. Update works in the same way. So, in this case, there is no need for apt-get. ...BUT... Especially for Raspberry PI, server OSs (e.g. CentOS), it is a good idea. But I do not thing, anyone would one to install it on a server unless they require libphobos to run an executable.

March 14, 2015

Re: sudo apt-get install dmd

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On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 10:31 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I was looking at easy installation of dmd on ubuntu, and found this:
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> http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/
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> Should we make it part of the official distribution?

It is the way I put DMD and other things in the repository into Debian Sid. These debs work nicely, the debs produced as part of the distribution have to be downloaded and installed into a local repository and it's all a mess: much easier having d-apt part of the release process.

Should also look to get the RPMs into rpmfusion for Fedora 21, 22 and Rawhide. similarly much easier than downloading RPMs into

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On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 18:56:07 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 10:31 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d > wrote: >> I was looking at easy installation of dmd on ubuntu, and found this: >> >> http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Should we make it part of the official distribution? > > It is the way I put DMD and other things in the repository into Debian > Sid. These debs work nicely, the debs produced as part of the > distribution have to be downloaded and installed into a local repository > and it's all a mess: much easier having d-apt part of the release > process. > > Should also look to get the RPMs into rpmfusion for Fedora 21, 22 and > Rawhide. similarly much easier than downloading RPMs into I thought DMD wasn't included in free distros because of licensing issues? I don't think any major distro comes without LDC or GDC.

On 3/14/15 11:37 AM, tcak wrote: > On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 17:31:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> I was looking at easy installation of dmd on ubuntu, and found this: >> >> http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Should we make it part of the official distribution? >> >> >> Andrei > > Ubuntu, most of the time, used with GUI. I just click on Download button > of DMD, and Firefox opens it with Software Centre, and I click on > Install button. Update works in the same way. So, in this case, there is > no need for apt-get. Well among other things I'm thinking of getting it programmatically in tools/update.sh. -- Andrei

On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 18:37:18 UTC, tcak wrote: > On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 17:31:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> I was looking at easy installation of dmd on ubuntu, and found this: >> >> http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Should we make it part of the official distribution? >> >> >> Andrei > > Ubuntu, most of the time, used with GUI. I just click on Download button of DMD, and Firefox opens it with Software Centre, and I click on Install button. Update works in the same way. So, in this case, there is no need for apt-get. > > ...BUT... > > Especially for Raspberry PI, server OSs (e.g. CentOS), it is a good idea. But I do not thing, anyone would one to install it on a server unless they require libphobos to run an executable. apt-get will get you the updates automagically !

On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 17:31:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > I was looking at easy installation of dmd on ubuntu, and found this: > > http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ > > Should we make it part of the official distribution? > > > Andrei You can't "distribute" repository. It could be good to move it to "dlang.org" domain though and suggest using it in "downloads" section instead of plain .deb package.

On 3/14/15 11:05 PM, Dicebot wrote: > On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 17:31:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> I was looking at easy installation of dmd on ubuntu, and found this: >> >> http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Should we make it part of the official distribution? >> >> >> Andrei > > You can't "distribute" repository. It could be good to move it to > "dlang.org" domain though and suggest using it in "downloads" section > instead of plain .deb package. Oh, yah, didn't mean "distribution". I meant make everything part of the site and official packaging process. -- Andrei

On 14/03/15 18:31, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > I was looking at easy installation of dmd on ubuntu, and found this: > > http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ > > Should we make it part of the official distribution? It would be nice to have an official apt repo. I find the way things are packaged there slightly unsatisfactory, inasmuch as it packages various different tools into the dmd-bin package (e.g. both dmd and rdmd) rather than allowing you to install/uninstall them separately. Alternatively, might be worth setting up a dlang PPA on Launchpad (I think it probably makes things easier setting up packages for multiple different Ubuntu and Debian installs).

On Sun, 2015-03-15 at 13:25 +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > > Alternatively, might be worth setting up a dlang PPA on Launchpad (I think it probably makes things easier setting up packages for multiple different Ubuntu and Debian installs). Experience tells us that Launchpad PPAs are fine for Ubuntu and no use for Debian. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.winder@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: russel@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder

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