How to install Scala 2.9 nightly build on Ubuntu?
Installing Scala 2.9 nightly build
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You have to do it by hand. I usually put my builds in
/usr/share/scala
but there are other places that make sense. Anyway, I'd start off by
sudo mkdir /usr/share/scala
cd /usr/share/scala
tar zxf scala-2.9.0.r24301-b20110218020036.tgz
ln -s scala-2.9.0.r24301-b20110218020036 2.9
Now we've got Scala in place and we have a soft link to /usr/share/scala/2.9 that we can keep pointing at new builds as we unpack them.
If you have Ubuntu's out-of-date Scala installed, you'll probably want to replace or rename those commands. Ubuntu places Scala commands in /usr/local/bin/
, so you need to re-point those to the right place:
sudo mv /usr/local/bin/scala /usr/local/bin/oldscala
sudo ln -s /usr/share/scala/2.9/bin/scala /usr/local/bin/scala
# same thing for scalac, fsc, scaladoc
and then you should be set. Ubuntu doesn't bother setting environment variables, and Scala works fine without it.
Just extract it someplace and make sure its
bin
subdirectory is on the PATH, as well asjava
.