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!
