How To Install gdmd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdmd
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gdmd
gdmd is:
This package provides
gdmd
, an interface to the GNU D compiler (GDC), which recognizes flags normally used with the DMD D compiler and translates them to flags GDC can understand. This makesgdmd
a drop-in replacement to thedmd
compiler invocation.
The GNU D compiler compiles D sources using the gcc backend to generate highly optimized binaries.
There are three methods to install gdmd
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gdmd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gdmd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gdmd
Install gdmd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gdmd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gdmd
Install gdmd Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gdmd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gdmd
How To Uninstall gdmd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gdmd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gdmd
Uninstall gdmd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gdmd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gdmd
Remove gdmd Configurations and Data
To remove gdmd
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gdmd
Remove gdmd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gdmd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gdmd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdmd
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.