[julia-users] Is Ubuntu's PPA needed for installing Julia?

[Kristoffer Carlsson]

Nope. I think the PPA is getting removed. 

[julia-users] Is Ubuntu's PPA needed for installing Julia?

[K leo]

So the PPA has not been maintained for many months.  I tried to download a
Linux generic version of Julia and it appears to work well on my Xubuntu
15.10 64bits.  So my question is do we really need the PPA to install Julia?