scala-xml for Scala 2.13 on Debian and Ubuntu

Question

In order to make them fully JVM 11 compatible, I want to update several Scala scripts on Debian and Ubuntu systems from Scala 2.12.12 to Scala 2.13.3.

The first problem I encountered is that the scala-xml jar file is not included anymore. So I tried sudo apt-get install -y scala-xml which installed a very old version for Scala 2.11. So I removed that again.

Then I tried to find some deb package I could install manually using dpkg. But couldn't find anything for Scala 2.13.

What shall I do?

Answer 1

as this question suggests:

Ubuntu repositories are always far behind latest versions. Did you try to download the last official deb package, then sudo dpkg -i scala-2.13.0.deb && sudo apt install -f

the download link: https://scala-lang.org/download/

(and specifically the download for ubuntu/debian: https://downloads.lightbend.com/scala/2.13.3/scala-2.13.3.deb )