Recently, I had to use Swift on Debian for a small project of mine.
There are various installation procedures on the web for installing Swift on Linux but they’re mostly for Ubuntu. Since things change with every Linux distribution, I want to share what I did.
The following procedure will cover installing Swift 4.1.2 on Debian Jessie.
- Make sure your Debian system is up-to-date,
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apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
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- Install the dependencies required by Swift,
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apt-get install clang libicu-dev
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- Check that you’ve
alien installed. We’ll need it later on,
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sudo apt-get install alien
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- Download Swift with whatever you want. I prefer
wget. Since we’re on Debian Jessie, you should opt for the Ubuntu 14.04 download of Swift 4.1.2 since Ubuntu 14.04 supports Debian Jessie.
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wget https://swift.org/builds/swift-4.1.2-release/ubuntu1404/swift-4.1.2-RELEASE/swift-4.1.2-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz
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tar -xvzf swift-4.1.2-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz
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- Enter into the uncompressed directory
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cd swift-4.1.2-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04
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- Compress the
usr directory into a tar.gz
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tar -cvzf swift-4.1.2.tar.gz usr
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- Use
alien to generate a .deb package,
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alien -v swift-4.1.2.tar.gz
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- Install your newly created
.deb package
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dpkg -i swift_4.1.2_all.deb
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That’s it. Now you can enter into Swift by typing swift into your shell prompt or compile your Swift files with swiftc.
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