I should add that it would still be useful if there was a Makefile to install Julia system wide after extracting the tarball.
Bill. On 9 December 2015 at 03:28, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On 9 December 2015 at 01:54, Tony Kelman <t...@kelman.net> wrote: > >> The PPA is maintained by staticfloat, aka Elliot Saba. He's had very >> little time for Julia lately and no one has stepped up to take over the PPA >> maintenance from him. >> > > Thanks for letting me know. I'll circulate that and see if anyone locally > wants to step up. You never know. > > >> >> You just extract the Linux tarballs, then run bin/julia. There's nothing >> to install. If you want to have julia on your path, you can add it in your >> bashrc. >> > > Oh, that works for me now. Last time I tried it (quite some time ago now) > it didn't. I figured the Ubuntu ppa's were there for a reason at the time, > so didn't think much more of it. > > Bill. > > >> >> >> On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 3:33:53 PM UTC-8, Bill Hart wrote: >>> >>> By the way, I haven't used the generic Linux binaries because I couldn't >>> figure out how to install them. There's no Makefile and no instructions. >>> The last time I tried they didn't work when just placed in my home >>> directory. They seem to need installation somewhere. >>> >>> I'm pretty sure our Ubuntu users are going to prefer the ppa magic >>> anyway. >>> >>> On 9 December 2015 at 00:24, Bill Hart <goodwi...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I've searched my machine and really haven't found libjulia.so, except >>>> the copy I mentioned, which has no symbols. >>>> >>>> The PPA's seemed to be very up-to-date with v0.4.1 being available the >>>> day it was released. They also work just fine. I think they are just >>>> missing something. >>>> >>>> Where would I even report that issue? Is it a Julia developer who >>>> maintains the staticfloat ppa's? >>>> >>>> Bill. >>>> >>>> On 8 December 2015 at 23:46, Tony Kelman <to...@kelman.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> That sounds like a serious bug in the PPA packaging, or it's just >>>>> putting libjulia somewhere you haven't found it. The PPA is not very >>>>> actively maintained at the moment, the generic tarball binaries are the >>>>> main binary install recommendation on Linux right now. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >
