I use linuxmint which works well with ubuntu pkgs. I have had success downloading the generic linux binaries and (as root) stuffing the contents into /usr/local.
On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 9:57:13 PM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: > > Because we needed to use some of the functionality which had been in 0.4, > we'd been using the nightly builds from 'ppa:staticfloat/julianightlies', > but now we need to switch that to picking up the 0.4.0 release candidates > until 0.4 becomes the release (because some packages like PEGParser.jl > are failing doing a Pkg.build, complaining about not working with 0.5). > > Is there any way of getting the 0.4 RC for Ubuntu? > > Thanks, Scott > >