Try the JULIA_HOME variable (base should be JULIA_HOME/../../)

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running Ubuntu with Julia 0.3.1 installed from PPA. I want to figure
> out where my Julia base directory is so I can create a userimg.jl file so I
> can pre-compile some modules that I use often. I got the idea from here:
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> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Gtk.jl/blob/master/doc/precompilation.md
>
> The problem is that I cannot figure out where my jula/base directory is.
> It appears to be nowhere. I have two candidate directories:
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> /usr/share/julia
> /usr/local/julia
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> My Julia version is 0.3.1. The file /usr/share/julia/VERSION says it
> is 0.3.0-prerelease. On the other hand, /var/lib/dpkg/info/julia.list seems
> to say that /usr/share/julia is the correct directory. So that doesn't make
> sense. The other directory --- /usr/local/julia --- does not have any
> VERSION file or anything that I could that would tell me what version of
> Julia it is for. I tried adding the "userimg.jl" file to both
> directories, but that didn't do anything. Even more strangely, neither
> directory one seems to be required for Julia to run. Look:
>
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> $ sudo mv /usr/share/julia $HOME/usr-share-julia
> $ sudo mv /usr/local/julia $HOME/usr-local-julia
> $
> $ julia --version
> julia version 0.3.1
> $
> $ julia
>                _
>    _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
>   (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
>    _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "help()" for help.
>   | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
>   | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.3.1 (2014-09-21 21:30 UTC)
>  _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official http://julialang.org release
> |__/                   |  x86_64-linux-gnu
>
> julia>
>
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> In other words, neither of those directories seems to be needed to run
> Julia. So, I am completely stuck. I have two "base" directories, neither
> of which seems to do anything.
>
> Can anyone help me out?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
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