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
2023.05
rakudo-2023.05.tar.gz	6.45 MB
rakudo-2023.05.tar.gz.asc	833.00 B
rakudo-2023.05.tar.gz.checksums.txt	1.50 KB

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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 bin/ and share/perl6/site/bin/. See the contained README.md file for further information.

File	Size
2023.04
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-win-x86_64-msvc.msi	19.73 MB
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-win-x86_64-msvc.msi.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-win-x86_64-msvc.msi.checksums.txt	0.99 KB
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-win-x86_64-msvc.zip	19.76 MB
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-win-x86_64-msvc.zip.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-win-x86_64-msvc.zip.checksums.txt	0.99 KB

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Scoop

Install Rakudo-on-MoarVM with Scoop: scoop install rakudo-moar

Scoop

Rakudo Star Bundle

This is a packaging of Rakudo itself, MoarVM, NQP and the modules of the Rakudo Star Bundle It's built straight from the Rakudo Star Bundle Windows MSI usually shortly after a Rakudo release.

Chocolatey

Install the Rakudo Star Bundle with chocolatey: choco install rakudostar

Chocolatey

Scoop

Install the Rakudo Star Bundle with Scoop: scoop install rakudo-star

Scoop

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 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
2023.04
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-linux-x86_64-gcc.tar.gz	17.78 MB
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-linux-x86_64-gcc.tar.gz.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-linux-x86_64-gcc.tar.gz.checksums.txt	1.02 KB

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Distro packages

When on *nix, the easiest way to install Rakudo is to use the packages provided by your distribution. The packages on non-rolling release distributions can be out of date so you may wish to use a user-maintained repository (see below).

Fedora

dnf install rakudo

Ubuntu / Debian

apt-get install rakudo

openSUSE

openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release)

zypper install rakudo

openSUSE Leap (stable)

Click on "1 Click Install" under experimental packages

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

Gentoo (rolling release)

emerge --ask --verbose dev-lang/rakudo

Alpine Linux

apk add rakudo

NixOS

NixOS: nix-env -iA nixos.rakudo

Non-NixOS: nix-env -iA nixpkgs.rakudo

User repositories

Arch Linux (AUR)

rakudo-bin rakudo rakudo-git

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 bin/ and share/perl6/site/bin/. See the contained README.md file for further information.

File	Size
2023.04
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-macos-arm64-clang.tar.gz	17.22 MB
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-macos-arm64-clang.tar.gz.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-macos-arm64-clang.tar.gz.checksums.txt	1.02 KB
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-macos-x86_64-clang.tar.gz	17.42 MB
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-macos-x86_64-clang.tar.gz.asc	228.00 B
rakudo-moar-2023.04-01-macos-x86_64-clang.tar.gz.checksums.txt	1.03 KB

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Homebrew

There is a Homebrew package available:
brew install rakudo

MacPorts

There is a rakudo MacPort available:
sudo port install rakudo

Rakudo can run on Node.JS and in modern browsers.

Rakudo.js

BSD

pkgsrc provides rakudo packages for NetBSD and other Unix flavors.

pkgsrc.se