Practical Problems with distribution D projects

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Either you download and install the package (deb/rpm) which is 
> easy but requires root,
> or you download and compile the sources from the source zip -

OR you download and run the binary zip. The instructions aren't 
very good, but this is really easy.

download dmd.version-you-want.zip
unzip dmd.zip

run dmd2/linux/bin32/dmd yourfile.d

that's all you have to do. You don't have to build anything (most 
the time), you don't have to mess with PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, 
you don't have to copy anything into a system folder. You just 
run the program straight out of the zip.