sudo apt-get install dmd

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On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 11:01:47 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 12:25:35 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling wrote:
>> 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).
>
> I'm not sure Ubuntu allows hosting non-FLOSS in their PPAs.


They do, but DMD's license specifically prohibits redistribution.
I think the best way to solve this is to work on LDC/GDC's 
compilation speed, I guess.