Thread: Clang 6.0.0 released

Hi,

Clang 6.0.0 is released. But it is not available as pre-build binary for Ubuntu 16.04 . I hope they would upload that too.

clang-6.0 is available in Debian Testing (Buster) package manager along with all the other related packages.

Other versions are also available.
3.9
4.0
5.0

I don't currently have access to the stable release of Debian, so can't speak to it's availability in that version.

Originally Posted by john.c

You can install it from llvm.org's server.
You need to add the server and its public key first.

Code:

wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://apt.llvm.org/xenial/ llvm-toolchain-xenial-6.0 main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y clang-6.0

Run it as clang-6.0

How can I invoke it with clang rather than clang-6.0 ?

Originally Posted by ordak

How can I invoke it with clang rather than clang-6.0 ?

As root on Debian, I ran:

Code:

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++  clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-6.0 100
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang  clang /usr/bin/clang-6.0 100

Or use "sudo" to run "update-alternatives".

Please see the man page for more information.

Maybe it is better for me, to just wait for clang 6.0.0 to appear in Ubuntu package manager.

Originally Posted by ordak

Maybe it is better for me, to just wait for clang 6.0.0 to appear in Ubuntu package manager.

If you have a previous version installed, as I did on Debian, it is possible you may need to run the two commands I presented above.

Yeah, just do it man!

Originally Posted by rstanley

clang-6.0 is available in Debian Testing (Buster) package manager ...
I don't currently have access to the stable release of Debian, so can't speak to it's availability in that version.

https://packages.debian.org/clang shows clang-5.0 as latest version in stretch-backports. The equivalent page for Ubuntu shows clang on version 6.0 in the long term support version of Ubuntu (18.04 Bionic) to be released next month.