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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.

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How To Install Nim on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Install Nim on Ubuntu 16

Nim is a systems and applications programming language. Statically typed and compiled, it gives unparalleled functionality in an elegant package.

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 Nim programming language on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.

Install Nim 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 Nim.

Nim is available on Ubuntu 16.04 repository. To install Nim we can run command below:

apt-get install gcc
apt-get install nim

Now we can check Nim version installed:

### nim -v
Nim Compiler Version 0.12.0 (2017-11-02) [Linux: amd64]
Copyright (c) 2006-2015 by Andreas Rumpf

Next create sample hello world application for Nim. Create new file called hello.nim with contents below:

echo "Hello Nim! - wpcademy.com"

Compile the source code:

$ nim c hello.nim
Hint: system [Processing]
Hint: hello [Processing]
CC: hello
CC: system
Hint: [Link]
Hint: operation successful (9846 lines compiled; 0.910 sec total; 16.168MB; Debug Build) [SuccessX]

Now let’s execute the hello application:

### ./hello 
Hello Nim! - wpcademy.com

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