clang.sh

REFERENCE # http://llvm.org/apt/

sudo bash -c "cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list" << LLVMAPT
# 3.6
deb http://llvm.org/apt/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty-3.6 main
deb-src http://llvm.org/apt/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty-3.6 main
LLVMAPT

wget -O - http://llvm.org/apt/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key|sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y clang-3.6 clang-format-3.6 lldb-3.6 libc++-dev libc++abi-dev

extra packages
clang-3.6-doc llvm-3.6-doc

sudo apt-get upgrade

# symbolic link for executable clang,clang++,lldb debugger based on LLVM

sudo ln -s -f /usr/bin/clang-3.6 /usr/bin/clang
sudo ln -s -f /usr/bin/clang++-3.6 /usr/bin/clang++
sudo ln -s -f /usr/bin/lldb-3.6 /usr/bin/lldb

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/clang-apply-replacements-3.6 /usr/bin/clang-apply-replacements
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/clang-format-diff-3.6 /usr/bin/clang-format-diff
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/clang-modernize-3.6 /usr/bin/clang-modernize

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/clang-tidy-3.6 /usr/bin/clang-tidy
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/clang-check-3.6 /usr/bin/clang-check




# for man pages
sudo ln -s -f "$(command -v clang-3.6)" /usr/local/bin/clang
sudo ln -s -f "$(command -v clang++-3.6)" /usr/local/bin/clang++
sudo ln -s -f "$(man -w clang-3.6)" /usr/share/man/man1/clang.1.gz
sudo ln -s -f "$(man -w clang-3.6)" /usr/share/man/man1/clang++.1.gz

I just installed clang++3.6 on my Ubuntu machine, but can't set it as the default c++ compiler.

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/cc cc /usr/bin/clang-3.6 100

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/c++ c++ /usr/bin/clang++-3.6 100

# you can also symbolic link what ever you want
sudo ln -s -f /usr/bin/clang-format-3.6 /usr/bin/clang-format