Installation on Ubuntu 18.04 is broken

[Norm]

On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 16:41:21 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> I would file a bug, but I don't have time to dig into this now, 
> and it would just sit there with no response for six months 
> anyway.
>
> I cannot find a way to get std.net.curl to work with Ubuntu 
> 18.04. Details can be found here:
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/bug-18649-3@https.issues.dlang.org%2F
> but that only lets you install the package without having a 
> broken package management system. It resolves nothing wrt 
> actually being able to use curl, which is part of the standard 
> library, and should be expected to work.
>
> I tried using the install script, but that leads to this bug
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18808
> which was filed more than a month ago and still hasn't received 
> a response.
>
> This experiment with having a new release every couple of weeks 
> was fun, but can we please be realistic about our resources, 
> and move to a sensible schedule. D is simply not an option in 
> situations that require reliability. And all the various 
> deprecations and language changes that are inserted in these 
> high-frequency releases (changes of arbitrary size can come 
> with little warning in *any* release) make it that much more 
> difficult.

Get a new distro. Ubuntu is a very sloppy distro and often breaks 
with a simple apt-get update. Compared to other distros it is 
very unstable, e.g. I haven't had a single broken package on Arch 
in 9 years and Fedora in 5 years.

But it begs the question why use any installer for D. On linux or 
BSD it is as simple as download, unzip, code.  Windows 64-bit and 
VisualD are the only non-trivial set up where I've found the 
installer was useful.

Bye,
Norm.