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How To Install JuliaLang on CentOS 7

JuliaLang on CentOS 7

Julia, commonly called JuliaLang, is a programming language for numerical computing. Julia is as fast as C but it doesn’t forfeit the readability. Therefore, we can decrease the running time of our programs in addition to the evolution time.

Table of Contents

Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

Step 2. Installing Required Packages.

Step 3. Installing JuliaLang.

 

Prerequisites

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root accge of Linount, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation the JuliaLang on a CentOS 7 server.
Install JuliaLang on CentOS 7

Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum clean all
yum -y install epel-release
yum -y update

Step 2. Installing Required Packages.

Install necessary packages:

yum-config-manager --add-repo https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nalimilan/julia/repo/epel-7/nalimilan-julia-epel-7.repo

Step 3. Installing JuliaLang.

Install Julia using following command:

yum install julia

New versions are built every night. If you have already installed julia and you want to upgrade to the latest version, do:

yum upgrade julia

Verify JuliaLang:

Type ./julia –version in the command prompt and the output should look like this:

julia version 0.6.0

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed JuliaLang. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing JuliaLang on CentOS 7 systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official JuliaLang web site.

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How To Install JuliaLang on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Install JuliaLang on Ubuntu 16

Julia, commonly called JuliaLang, is a programming language for numerical computing. Julia is as fast as C but it doesn’t forfeit the readability. Therefore, we can decrease the running time of our programs in addition to the evolution time.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation JuliaLang on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.

Install JuliaLang on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Installing required dependencies.

First, make sure you have all the required dependencies installed:

apt-get install gcc
apt-get install make
apt-get install g++
apt-get install python
apt-get install gfortran
apt-get install perl
apt-get install m4
apt-get install patch
apt-get install cmake
apt-get install pkg-config

Step 3. Installing JuliaLang.

Then, get the source code of Julia from Github:

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

Next, checkout the latest version of Julia:

git checkout v0.6.0

Build Julia from source:

make -j 2

Verify JuliaLang:

Type ./julia –version in the command prompt and the output should look like this:

julia version 0.6.0

There are 2 ways to use Julia, The first one is via its REPL. Just type in ./julia to access the REPL. The second one is by saving the running code under a file with extension .jl and run this file with ./julia .

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed JuliaLang. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing latest stable version of JuliaLang on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official JuliaLang web site.