Well, it's been a total failure

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 09/11/2010 05:52 PM, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
>   I'm running Fedora 13.x86_64 and I've tried various ways of getting a
> D compiler to work. None have succeeded.
>
> 1. a. I can't install dmd 2.048:
>
>          # rpm -Uvh /downloads/dmd-2.048-0.i386.rpm
>          error: Failed dependencies:
>             gcc(x86-32)>= 4.2.3 is needed by dmd-2.048-0.i386
>     I don't know what package will satisfy this dependency.
>     b. dmd is a closed compiler. Not good. I'm really not comfortable
> running a compiler for which I don't have access to the source. The
> risk of undetected malware is too great.
>     c. So, I give up on dmd.

Apologies for the poor experience. It's because you don't have the 
32-bit portability libraries on your 64-bit system. A 64-bit edition is 
in the works and would certainly make everything smoother.

In the meantime you'd need to run:

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libc6-i386 lib6-dev-i386
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
sudo apt-get install g++-multilib

We need to add these instructions to the download page.


Andrei