A step-by-step guide on how to install Swift on Ubuntu 20.04. Setup Download Swift from -> select the Toolchain archive for https://swift.org/download/ Ubuntu 20.04 Extract the archive, then open and append this line: ~/.bashrc PATH="/.../<absolute-path-to-the-extracted-swift-folder>/usr/bin:$PATH" Reload with .bashrc source ~/.bashrc Install the required dependencies. See . https://swift.org/download/#using-downloads Linux > Installation > Install required dependencies (for Ubuntu 20.04) sudo apt-get install \
          binutils \
          git \
          gnupg2 \
          libc6-dev \
          libcurl4 \
          libedit2 \
          libgcc-9-dev \
          libpython2.7 \
          libsqlite3-0 \
          libstdc++-9-dev \
          libxml2 \
          libz3-dev \
          pkg-config \
          tzdata \
          uuid-dev \
          zlib1g-dev Test it, in a terminal: swift --version

# you should see something similar to
Swift version 5.5.2 (swift-5.5.2-RELEASE)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Create an example app Make a folder: mkdir swift-app
cd swift-app Then generate an empty project with: swift package init --type executable Build it: swift build and run the executable: .build/debug/swift-app

# or
swift run

# it should print Hello, world!

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