Swift on Linux: Make very first step work

Question

I am totally new to swift. It has just been released as open source for linux and I wanted to try it. This is on ubuntu 14.04. clang is installed as per prerequisites.

Answer 1

Had the same issue, what I missed was that I didn't get the keys for the package and verify it before extracting.

1. Download the package
2. wget -q -O - https://swift.org/keys/all-keys.asc | gpg --import
3. gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --refresh-keys Swift
4. gpg --verify swift-2.2-SNAPSHOT-2015-12-01-b-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz.sig
5. tar xzf swift-2.2-SNAPSHOT-2015-12-01-b-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz
6. add PATH=/path/to/usr/bin:"${PATH}" to your .bashrc
7. finally run swift

You should see:

Welcome to Swift version 2.2-dev (LLVM 46be9ff861, Clang 4deb154edc, Swift 778f82939c). Type :help for assistance.
1> 1+1
$R0: Int = 2