September 2017
Beginner
402 pages
9h 52m
English
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Downloading and installing Rakudo Star
There are a few ways of installing Rakudo Star on your computer. You can either download the source code and compile it or download an installer for your platform. Rakudo Star is available for all major platforms, namely, Windows (both 32- and 64-bit versions), Mac OS X, and Linux.
The main download page of Rakudo Star is http://perl6.org/downloads. On that page, you will find links to the latest versions of the Rakudo Star distributions for different platforms and instructions on how to install them.
On Windows, the process is extremely simple. Just download the most recent version of the MSI installer, run it, and follow the instructions.
On Mac OS X, you either download a .dmg installer, or use the ...