Installing Julia

Install Julia locally to your system

This article covers the local installation of Julia using packages from the Download Page.

Installs can either be without sudo/admin USER or GLOBAL. Choose one and follow the instructions for that target.

Table of contents

Windows

1. Download the executable (32-bit / 64-bit)
2. Open with Admin Privileges
3. GLOBAL | Change install directory to %PROGRAMFILES%/Julia
4. GLOBAL | Add julia to PATH:

$PATH = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH")
$julia_path = "C:\Program Files\Julia"
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "$PATH;$julia_path", "Machine")

5. USER | Alias julia in your $Profile

macOS

brew cask install julia   # GLOBAL

Linux

curl https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.1/julia-1.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
  -o /tmp/julia.tar.gz
tar -C /tmp -xzf /tmp/julia.tar.gz
sudo cp -r /tmp/julia /opt/local   # GLOBAL
# Or: cp -r /tmp/julia ~/bin       # USER

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