How does Ubuntu install Swift?

　　What is Swift?

Swift is Apple's newest programming language, designed to replace Objective-c as the main language for building Mac OS X and IOS applications. Swift is very concise and easy to learn, and has a similar syntax to other popular programming languages.

However, the Swift language applies only to Apple devices, and programs that are developed cannot be run on Windows, Linux, or other systems. As Swift becomes more popular, more and more developers are hoping that Apple will open the source of swift, at least to enable it to support more platforms. Apple, too, listened to the vast majority of developers ' voices and eventually made Swift open source. As a business point of view, it's a good move for Apple to open up Swift, which at least makes it easier for more developers to create Mac OS X and IOS apps.

If you are interested in learning the Swift programming language, you can install it at any time on Linux. Apple is now releasing only the installer for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 15.10, and is confident Apple will soon update the common installer for other platforms and Linux platforms.

　　How Ubuntu installs Swift

1. First, we need to go to the swift download page to download the latest Swift program and then unzip it to a storage path.

2. Secondly, we need to install some of the dependencies needed for Swift operations, and you can install them using the following command:

sudo apt-get install clang Libicu-dev

3. Secondly, we need to install some of the dependencies needed for Swift operations, and you can install them using the following command:

sudo apt-get install clang Libicu-dev

4. Open the configuration file using the following command:

Gedit. Profile

5. In the "Last Insert Line" entry:

Export path=/path/to/usr/bin: "${path}"

6. Change the/path/to/in the appeal path to the decompression path after Swift download in the first step:

/home/billyfu/swift-2.2-snapshot-2015-12-31-a-ubuntu15.10/usr/bin

7. After the above steps are completed, you can use the following command to view the Swift version:

Swift–version

If you see the correct display version number, then Swift will be able to work on Ubuntu!