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: > > 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: > > /usr/share/julia > /usr/local/julia > > 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: > > > $ 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> > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
