The source is the basis from which all the other packages are created. If none of the other options suits your need, you can always compile Rakudo yourself from these sources.

File	Size
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rakudo-2025.11.tar.gz	7.34 MB
rakudo-2025.11.tar.gz.asc	228.00 B

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Binary Releases

Archives and installers contain a precompiled Rakudo and the Zef module manager. The filenames follow the pattern rakudo-[backend]-[version]-[build revision]-[OS]-[architecture]-[toolchain].

The archives have executables located in BOTH bin/ and share/perl6/site/bin/. See the contained README.txt file for further information.

File	Size
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rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-win-x86_64-msvc.msi	21.85 MB
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-win-x86_64-msvc.msi.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-win-x86_64-msvc.msi.checksums.txt	0.99 KB
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-win-x86_64-msvc.zip	21.86 MB
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-win-x86_64-msvc.zip.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-win-x86_64-msvc.zip.checksums.txt	0.99 KB

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Archives contain a precompiled Rakudo and the Zef module manager. The filenames follow the pattern rakudo-[backend]-[version]-[build revision]-[OS]-[architecture]-[toolchain].

The archives have executables located in BOTH bin/ and share/perl6/site/bin/. See the contained README.md file for further information.

These don't work on Alpine. See below.

File	Size
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rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-linux-x86_64-gcc.tar.gz	19.94 MB
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-linux-x86_64-gcc.tar.gz.asc	228.00 B
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Alpine

The compiled tarballs above don't work on Alpine because they are built with glibc, but Alpine provides musl instead. When trying to run the executables one receives a highly misleading /bin/sh: ./rakudo: not found error. Installing the gcompat glib compatibility wrapper allows running those tarballs. But it's a lot easier and provides for a smaller installation size to just use the distro packages Alpine provides. They are usually up-to-date.

apk add rakudo zef

rakudo-pkg distro packages

These are often more up to date than the packages provided by the distribution itself, but require adding a third party repository.

• Native packages and repositories for Alpine, Debian, EL (RHEL/CentOS/AmazonLinux/OracleLinux), Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu
• Additionally a relocable tar.gz for all Linux distributions
• One single package used for Rakudo, NQP and MoarVM
• Includes zef (Raku Module Installer) and helper scripts (e.g. zef install as user).

rakudo-pkg package repositories

Binary Releases

Archives contain a precompiled Rakudo and the Zef module manager. The filenames follow the pattern rakudo-[backend]-[version]-[build revision]-[OS]-[architecture]-[toolchain].

The archives have executables located in BOTH bin/ and share/perl6/site/bin/. See the contained README.md file for further information.

File	Size
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rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-macos-arm64-clang.tar.gz	19.36 MB
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-macos-arm64-clang.tar.gz.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-macos-arm64-clang.tar.gz.checksums.txt	1.02 KB
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-macos-x86_64-clang.tar.gz	19.49 MB
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-macos-x86_64-clang.tar.gz.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2025.11-01-macos-x86_64-clang.tar.gz.checksums.txt	1.03 KB

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