sudo apt-get install dmd

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 9 August 2019 at 18:32:03 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Friday, 9 August 2019 at 16:56:33 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Friday, 9 August 2019 at 16:42:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2019-08-09 at 16:11 +0000, bachmeier via 
>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 9 August 2019 at 16:08:41 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
>>>> > Can someone explain, why we still do not have apt 
>>>> > repository for D compiler?
>>>> 
>>>> Doesn't this do what you need? https://d-apt.sourceforge.io/
>>>
>>> That certainly works for me. Though I use the ldc2 compiler 
>>> which is in the standard Debian archive.
>>
>> And as a snap package, which I think is updated more quickly.
>
> How does that work? I don't use linux very often, but whenever 
> I do I feel like apt gives me a really old version of ldc and 
> just install it manually.

I believe the command is

sudo snap install ldc2 --classic

on Ubuntu. snap should be installed as part of the standard 
installation.