Installation

Installation

Download and Install

You can install the julia language interpreter from its official site julialang.org

The Easy Way

Linux

Download the latest binary version, unpack and link the binary file (path/to/julia-1.x.x/bin/julia) to your system path

sudo ln -s /path/to/julia-1.x.x/bin/julia /usr/bin/julia

Check your installation by typing julia in your shell.

Mac OS

Download the .dmg file, click and install. You may also want to set the path

Windows

Follow the offical guide.

The Hard Way (From Source)

Build from source

Build julia from source will help you enable some platform related optimizations. First, clone julia master branch

$ git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git

Build stable version (using v1.0.0 as an example)

$ cd julia
$ git checkout v1.0.0

Add this to Make.user file

prefix=/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.virtualenvs/julia-stable
$ make && make install

The Hardest Way (using Virtual Environment, shall we remove this part? @Roger)

If you don't care dependencies, Julia itself contains a environment manager for its own packages, you can just install your Julia program to global scope of the system.

Setup your Julia Environment

For \nix users*

If you want to use virtualenv to control julia binaries and compile it with other languages in the future. I suggest you hatch, a modern project, package, and virtual env manager.

To install hatch, you need Python3.5+

$ pip3 install --user hatch

create a virtualenv by the following command

$ hatch env julia-stable

From binary file

download from julialang.org and extract your binary file, it has the following structure

.
├── bin
├── etc
├── include
├── lib
├── LICENSE.md
└── share

then move these files into related folder

.virtualenv/julia-stable/

with the same structure: