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Issue 19815 - Documentation for install.sh is hard to find and unnecessarily complex
Summary: Documentation for install.sh is hard to find and unnecessarily complex
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of issue 17998
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: installer (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
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Reported: 2019-04-21 09:00 UTC by Walter Bright
Modified: 2023-01-02 21:02 UTC (History)
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Description Walter Bright 2019-04-21 09:00:10 UTC 
The link to https://dlang.org/install.html is way beyond the fold of https://dlang.org/download.html, and looks like this:

  Install Script (i)
  curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd-nightly

Need to give some exposition here, such as this text:

"The dlang.org/install.sh script is the official D version manager for DMD, GDC and LDC on FreeBSD, Linux and macOS. It provides a convenient way to fetch and install a D compiler without requiring administrative privileges nor external dependencies. (i)"

Leave off the bash command. The installer documentation makes no mention of -fsS, either. It shouldn't be there if the documentation doesn't cover it.
Comment 1 Iain Buclaw 2023-01-02 21:02:52 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 17998 ***