D seems interesting, but...

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 03:10:59 UTC, Gerry Weaver wrote:
>  I install the latest package and try to build "Hello World".

I've always used the .zip and found it to be the easiest way (and 
btw, don't follow the terrible installation instructions, just 
unzip it and use right out of the box).

$ wget blah/dmd.version.zip
$ unzip dmd.version.zip
$ dmd2/src/linux32/bin/dmd hello.d

You can of course also add that to your $PATH or use a wrapper 
script or whatever so you can refer to it easier.


That has consistently worked for me for many years. You can 
install it in /opt or in your own $HOME (my preference, so I 
don't even have to bother with root).