Getting Perl 6 on Debian Jessie with Rakudo?

[nysus]

On Debian Jessie, can I just do apt-get install rakudo and be done with it? I have zero need to have the latest and greatest version of Perl 6. I'm more interested in not have one more thing to keep track of. I just want to kick Perl 6 tires. I don't even need to test drive.

[duelafn]

The rakudo in Jessie is quite old (still based on parrot virtual machine), but should work for simple experiments (but don't be surprised if some examples you see on the web don't work). Then, once you upgrade to Stretch (which just went into freeze) you'll have a reasonably current version (supporting the 6.c spec).

[stevieb]

I don't have a Debian box, but it sure worked for me on my new Linux Mint laptop:

spek@sequoia ~/repos/berrybrew $ sudo apt-get install rakudo
[sudo] password for spek: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libjs-angularjs libjs-bootstrap libtommath0 moarvm nqp rakudo-lib
Suggested packages:
  valgrind
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libjs-angularjs libjs-bootstrap libtommath0 moarvm nqp rakudo rakudo
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spek@sequoia ~/repos/berrybrew $ perl6 -v
This is perl6 version 2015.11 built on MoarVM version 2015.11

[nysus]

Yeah, I'm a little gun shy about adding stuff from unsupported repositories. Maybe it's for no good reason but I've heard others tell me it's a bad idea.

[marto]

Which unsupported repositories? https://packages.debian.org/jessie/rakudo

[stevieb]

The only things I don't do on my Linux installations is a) muck with system Perl; and b) muck with system Python. Beyond that, anything is fair game (using reasonable judgment of course... if apt-get install can, I will. In this case, since it worked directly, I'd say it's a supported repo, not an unsupported one ;).