I would file an issue with IJulia since it should look for that file relative to where the package was loaded from, not some arbitrary path.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]> wrote: > I have worked out how to install packages as root, and access them them as > an ordinary user (I just use > ENV["JULIA_PKGDIR"]="/opt/julia/usr/share/julia/site/v0.3" as root to > install, and as user to access the packages). But this doesn't work for > IJulia, as it seems to need the file ~/.julia/IJulia/src/kernel.jl. This > kernel.jl file is of course installed in my /opt/julia tree, but IJulia > can't find it. > > I can of course simply install IJulia as a user, but in general I like to > keep my home directory only for personal (and config) files, and have > everything else central. > > So - is there any way that I, as a non-root user, can run something like > > ipython notebook --profile julia --browser="firefox" > > and have julia pick up the kernel.jl file from the /opt/julia tree? >
