Bug 3028 – The D 1.0 Ubuntu .deb file is completely broken

First of all, this .deb is clearly created exclusively for the amd64 platform, because dpkg will not install it as-is on i386 (this also affects the graphical installers, which are ran when opening a .deb file in GNOME/KDE). Providing --force-architecture is not sufficient, because it will then complain about dependencies to missing 32-bit packages (they will be missing because 32-bit packages are explicitly named as 32-bit on 64-bit *Ubuntus). It is still possible to install the .deb using --force-architecture,depends - however this does not result in a functioning installation. The copy of Phobos installed is a mess - it lacks the "core" runtime, and has a second "phobos" subdirectory containing the D 2.0 Phobos. Thus DMD fails to compile even a simple "Hello world" program. Something should be done about this, considering how Ubuntu is popular among novice Linux users. Fix it or nix it.

Correction - "core" isn't "missing" because it shouldn't be there. I got confused with DMD showing errors that it can't find "core.memory", but that's because it was trying to compile Phobos 2.0.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that dmd.conf is set up incorrectly - there is one "../" too many in the -I path for Phobos.

got .deb for ubuntu and when I try to compile simple helloworld I get $ dmd hello_world.d object.d: Error: module object cannot read file 'object.d' And there is no object.d on my disk at all, so deb is broken I think... I agree with Vladimir, ubuntu is very popular so someone should somehow fix this. Actually for me (and I think not only for me) it is insuperable obstacle in learning D.

Is this still an issue?

Downloaded latest ubuntu .deb package, installed, looks like it works fine. At least hello_world.d compiles fine. Thanks. Environment: $ uname -a Linux probook 3.0.0-15-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 2 17:44:42 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/*release* DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10"

Thanks for checking, so I can close this.