Problems installing Julia language
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Solution 1
For future users: get the newer version/a working link from https://julialang.org/downloads/
# go to your user folder
cd ~
# get julia
wget https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.3/julia-1.3.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
# extract the file (eXtract File as options)
tar xf julia-1.3.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
# Create a shortcut (a soft link) that's places in a globally accessible folder
sudo ln -s ~/julia-1.3.0/bin/julia /usr/local/bin/julia
Now you can run julia
anywhere.
Solution 2
It seems like you have broken packages. To fix the problem, you might want to try entering this into the terminal:
sudo sh -c "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade;apt-get autoremove;apt-get autoclean"
Also enter this into the terminal:
sudo apt --fix-broken install
This should fix up your broken packages. Now try installing Julia again.
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Comments
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Ron over 1 year
I'm following instructions from here (see Ubuntu section). It says me to do
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/juliareleases sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/julia-deps sudo apt-get update
But then the command
sudo apt-get install julia
Gives me
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: julia : Depends: libcholmod1.7.1 but it is not installable or libcholmod2.1.2 but it is not installable or libcholmod3.0.6 but it is not installable Depends: libumfpack5.4.0 but it is not installable or libumfpack5.6.2 but it is not installable or libumfpack5.7.1 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I am using Xubuntu 16.10.
Can you please help me to understand what is going on and how to solve it?
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Admin almost 6 yearsFor the record, Julia is available in official Ubuntu repositories, there's no need to add external PPA unless you rely on the newest version of the language
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