Julia installation

Julia is a high-level, general-purpose language usually suited for numerical analysis and computational science. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. To install Julia on Fedora, simply type:

$ sudo dnf install julia

You can now start the Julia REPL (read-eval-print loop), which is an interactive session by invoking the julia command in the terminal. You can expect an output as below.

$ julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.7.3 (2022-05-06)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Fedora 36 build
|__/                   |

julia> 

Now, you can run julia commands inside the REPL.

julia> 1+1
2

julia> 

To exit the REPL, you can use Ctrl + D or type exit().

Julia source files have the file extension .jl. Create a julia program your_source.jl. You can run the file using the command below:

$ julia your_source.jl

To see the manual page of julia, simply type:

$ man julia

References

• Julia Documentation

Authors: Jagat Kafle, Jarek Prokop, Nick Dirschel