- Introduction
- Relocatable Builds
- OS Repositories
- Direct Downloads
- Set the PATH
- Zef Module Manager as a Regular User
- Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Using rakudo-pkg in a module CI
- Using rakudo-pkg for testing upstream Rakudo
- Contributing
rakudo-pkg offers native packages (OS packages and relocatable builds) of
the Rakudo compiler for Raku and the
zef nodule installer. The packages track the
upstream releases closely. Most of the time, the packages will be released on
the same day as the Rakudo sources. At the moment, packages are provided for
Alpine, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL and Ubuntu. The relocatable
builds (tar xvzf and use) work universally on all recent Linux distributions.
From a security point of view, the packages are created, checksummed and automatically uploaded from the code in this repository by Github Actions to Github Releases and Bintray Repositories.
Relocatable builds can be uncompressed and used right away, e.g. in your home
directory. rakudo-pkg "*.tar.gz" releases can be downloaded from the
the Github tab.
The relocable builds work on distributions with a glibc at the same level or newer than Ubuntu 16.04 (released in April 2016).
The easiest way to install the Rakudo on Debian, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL
and Ubuntu (and their derivatives) is by using the rakudo-pkg
repositories. For Alpine and manual downloads, see
Direct Downloads.
To use the repos on Debian and Ubuntu, you need to add the applicable sources:
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 379CE192D401AB61
$ echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg-debs `lsb_release -cs` main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rakudo-pkg.list
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install rakudo-pkgIf you don't have lsb_release installed, you can use the OS codename (e.g.,
stretch, bionic, etc.) instead of the lsb_release -cs command.
To use the repos on CentOS, Fedora and RHEL, you need to a repofile:
$ echo -e "[rakudo-pkg]\nname=rakudo-pkg\nbaseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg-rpms/`lsb_release -is`/`lsb_release -rs| cut -d. -f1`/x86_64\ngpgcheck=0\nenabled=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/rakudo-pkg.repo
If you don't have redhat-lsb-core installed, you can use the OS name (e.g.,
CentOS, Fedora) instead of the lsb_release -is command and release (e.g. 7,
26, 27, 28) instead of the one with -rs.
Install the package on CentOS 7:
$ sudo yum install rakudo-pkg
Install the package on recent CentOS, Fedora and RHEL:
$ sudo dnf install rakudo-pkg
To use the repos on openSUSE, you need to add a repo to zypper (accept the key):
$ sudo zypper ar -f https://dl.bintray.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg-rpms/openSUSE/`lsb_release -rs`/x86_64 rakudo-pkg
$ sudo zypper install rakudo-pkg
In case you don't have lsb-release installed, you can put the openSUSE
version (e.g. 15.2) instead of the lsb_release -rs command.
There is no Alpine repo at the moment. The apk packages can be downloaded from the releases tab.
You can install the downloaded packages from the releases tab by using the regular package installer of your distribution: ackage manager of your distribution:
- Alpine:
$ sudo apk add --allow-untrusted *.apk
- Debian and Ubuntu:
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
- CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and RHEL:
$ sudo rpm -Uvh *.rpm
The path is set by setting a rakudo-pkg.sh profile file in /etc/profile.d and
will be active once you log in again. Source the package if you want to
activate the changes in your running session;
. /etc/profile.d/rakudo-pkg.sh
Alternatively, a script is supplied to do this automatically for you in the user profile. Run it as your regular user:
$ /opt/rakudo-pkg/bin/add-rakudo-to-pathSee the PATH in the short script if you prefer to set the PATH manually.
The installation supplies a working global Zef installation
(/opt/rakudo-pkg/bin/zef). However, Rakudo takes a different approach than
many other languages (including Perl): modules are by default installed in the
home directory of the user.
A script is supplied to install zef as a user. Zef will be installed to
~/.raku/bin/zef and modules will reside in ~/.raku:
/opt/rakudo-pkg/bin/install-zef-as-userIf you're using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka Bash or Ubuntu on Windows 10), use the repository or package for the installed Linux distribution. You'll need to strip the moarvm library of (unused) kernel functionalities that Windows does not implement yet:
$ /opt/rakudo-pkg/bin/fix-windows10You can use rakudo-pkg to speed-up the continuous integration of your Raku modules on Github Actions and other CI systems.
An example step using the action add-deb-repo:
- name: install rakudo-pkg
env:
PATH: "/opt/rakudo-pkg/bin:/opt/rakudo-pkg/share/perl6/site/bin:$PATH"
uses: myci-actions/add-deb-repo@4
with:
# Beware: soon bionic will be replace by focal on Github Actions
repo: deb https://dl.bintray.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg-debs $(lsb_release -cs) main
repo-name: rakudo-pkg
keys: 0x379CE192D401AB61
key-server: keyserver.ubuntu.com
After this step you should run zef install . && zef test . or whatever else
is needed to install and test your package.
This repo does not only build and package Rakudo releases but works also for specific commits on all the included components. Just fork this repo, and change the config/versions.sh to what you want to test:
$ cat config/versions.sh
# The versions set in this file are used to download, build and package rakudo.
# By prepending a commit with "@", you can build specific commit of each
# component, e.g. RAKUDO_VERSION=@0c8d238a8c8dd2a22c5c23530fdc198be60ed63d
RAKUDO_VERSION=2020.12
NQP_VERSION=2020.12
MOARVM_VERSION=2020.12
ZEF_VERSION=0.11.2
PKG_REVISION=01
NFPM_VERSION=2.2.3Issues (bugs and ideas) and PRs are always welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
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