How To Install ldc on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ldc
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ldc
ldc is:
LDC is a portable compiler for the D programming language with modern optimization and code generation capabilities.
It uses the official DMD compiler frontend to support the latest version of D, and relies on the LLVM Core libraries for code generation.
There are three methods to install ldc
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ldc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ldc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ldc
Install ldc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ldc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ldc
Install ldc 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 ldc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ldc
How To Uninstall ldc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ldc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ldc
Uninstall ldc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ldc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ldc
Remove ldc Configurations and Data
To remove ldc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ldc
Remove ldc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ldc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ldc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ldc
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.