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.
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. 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 <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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 <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> 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. >> >> >> >
