Note from a donor

[Daniel Kozak]

On my Arch linux, it is really easy to install D.

pacaur -Sy dlang // install dmd, ldc, and some other d tools
pacaur -Sy visual-studio-code // install visual studio code, then I just
install plugins from vscode

So I can't see how this could be easier

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Bo via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 05:20:05 UTC, codephantom wrote:
>
>> That's it!
>>
>> I've had enough!
>>
>> 4 hours wasted!
>>
>
> Please try getting some editors going for D on Windows like Visual Studio
> Code or Atom. That time wasted will skyrocket even more when you run into
> one of the many issues.
>
> Linux installation is not much better.
>
> Brew ... took a hour to install but only had dmd not dub for some reason.
>
> The install script on the website:
>
> curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
>
> Well, that forces people to use:
>
> source ~/dlang/dmd-2.076.1/activate
>
> Each time they want to work with D. And it does not play nice with WSL
> because it never gets loaded so trying to access dmd from outside the WSL
> does not work.
>
> Download the Ubuntu/Debian deb file ... well, you better have google near
> you. How hard is it to have "sudo dpkg -i DEB_PACKAGE" as a instruction
> clearly on the website instead of only the deb file link... :)
>
> Or write in clear way simply:
>
> wget http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.076.1/dmd_2.076.1-
> 0_amd64.deb
> sudo dpkg -i dmd_2.076.1-0_amd64.deb
>
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