[sf-perl] Perl 6 on Debian

[David Christensen]

Krishna:

Thanks for the link.  Who is nxadm?  The packages have SHA1 checksums, 
but they do not appear to be signed (?).

David


On 9/25/18 7:07 PM, Subramanian, Krishna wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I was able to install perl 6 from here --
> https://github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases
> 
> I have rakudo-pkg-Debian9.3_2018.02.1-01_amd64.deb installed on my system and it works fine.
> 
> Regards,
> Krishna
> 
> 
> On 9/25/18, 6:56 PM, "SanFrancisco-pm on behalf of David Christensen" <sanfrancisco-pm-bounces+sukrishn=amazon.com at pm.org on behalf of dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> 
>      sfpm:
>      
>      I received "Learning Perl 6" [LP6] today.
>      
>      
>      I use Debian Stretch.
>      
>      
>      Browsing perl6.org, I see that a source tarball is available for *nix
>      platforms.  But, I have found that building and installing software from
>      source tends to destabilize my system (likely, PEBKAC).  I prefer Debian
>      packages -- first, from the Debian project; second, from the vendor.
>      
>      
>      Searching Apt, I found and installed the "perl6" package:
>      
>      2018-09-25 18:17:59 dpchrist at vstretch ~
>      $ perl6 -v
>      This is Rakudo version 2016.12 built on MoarVM version 2016.12
>      implementing Perl 6.c.
>      
>      
>      LP6 uses "Rakudo Star version 2018.04 built on MoarVM version 2018.04."
>      
>      
>      Searching https://backports.debian.org/, I don't see any perl6 or rakudo
>      packages.
>      
>      
>      Any comments or suggestions?
>      
>      
>      TIA,
>      
>      David
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