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Hate to ask this way, but rust has cargo add pkgname does swift have something similar, or is there another "easy" way to add remote dependencies?

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Not sure if this is important, but I am trying to see what developing server side apps using swift on linux.

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There's nothing built-in that does that sort of action. Right now it's a manual process to add the packages and set up any target dependencies. It gets a little trickier to tweak Package.swift because it's IN the Swift language (and there's the support for multiple iterations of it where the swift language has morphed) - making full support for something like this notably more challenging in the complete sense.

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There is a Swift Evolution Proposal for such a thing (swift-evolution/proposals/0301-package-editing-commands.md at main · apple/swift-evolution · GitHub) and it was accepted and implemented (https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/pull/5802) but it’s not yet merged.

Luckily it’s not too hard to manually add a package via editing the package manifest.

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Thanks for the info, I am trying to see what getting a swift toolchain and dev environ is like for linux.