Well, it’s a bit of a hassle, honestly.

1. Go here http://apt.llvm.org/2. Find your deb/deb-src pair under Debian section. For me it was Buster (Debian 10 - stable) and I want the latest stable version, so I got this:

   deb http://apt.llvm.org/buster/ llvm-toolchain-buster-9 main deb-src http://apt.llvm.org/buster/ llvm-toolchain-buster-9 main

2. Paste the above somewhere in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/llvm.list
3. sudo apt update
4. Tricky one - sudo apt install -t llvm-toolchain-buster-9 clang-tools-9 clang If you will not specify the -9 part in clang-tools then it will install -7 which sucks. If you will not specify -t part then it will not look for [apt.llvm.org](http://apt.llvm.org) for said package and instead will hit debian package which is outdated.

That’s it, you should now have clang-9 and clangd both in version 9. $ clangd –version clangd version 9.0.1-svn374858-1~exp1~20191015042909.61 (branches/release_90)Well, almost. clang binary does not exist, so you’ll have to link it to clang-9 but that’s no brainer.

sudo ln -s $(which clang-9) /usr/bin/clang

There, now it should work :)

clang --version
clang version 9.0.1-svn374858-1~exp1~20191015042909.61 (branches/release_90)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin