You should use the generic linux tarballs. The ubuntu binaries are no longer maintained, which is why they are not listed on the downloads page, and instead buried deeper on the platforms page. Perhaps we should remove them altogether.
-viral On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5:51:33 AM UTC+5:30, Alexandros Fakos wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to run julia in parallel on EC2 AWS. I use the starcluster > package to create a cluster of instances. > > The problem is that the instances have already installed the 0.3.0 > prerelease. > > I log in the starcluster master node and use the instructions from > http://julialang.org/downloads/platform.html > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/juliareleases > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/julia-deps > sudo apt-get update (this command is giving me errors: W:Failed to fetch > http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/distrs/raring etc. and > other similar messages) > sudo apt-get install julia > > Unfortunately, when I type julia in the terminal the 0.3.0 prerelease > comes up. > > Note that in my regular EC2 instance the above commands work and install > julia 0.4.6 > > As a general question, how can I launch instances with the latest stable > version of julia preinstalled? If I cannot do that, how can I install the > latest version of julia in all my cluster nodes? > > Thanks a lot, > Alex >
