Installing Julia & Pluto
Installing Julia
When you see below add Pluto
↩ Enter , it means that you should type “add Pluto” followed by pressing “Enter” on our keyboard. And when you see AltGr+9 it means that you need to press the key AltGr and the key 9, keeping the first pressed.
The installation instructions for Julia vary depending on your Operating System (OS). Please choose your OS tab in the following box to see the appropriate instructions.
- Go to the Julia download website: https://julialang.org/downloads/.
- Download the executable: 64-bit (installer)
- Check your Downloads folder and double-click the file you have just downloaded to run it
- Allow the installation to be done in the default directory
- Click on:
- Click on: Finish
🎉 Well done! By now, Julia should be correctly installed in your PC.
To run it, search for the icon .
- Go to the Julia download website: https://julialang.org/downloads/.
- Download the executable: 64-bit (.dmg)
- Check your Downloads folder and drag it to the Applications folder
🎉 Well done! By now, Julia should be correctly installed in your PC.
To run it, search for the icon in Applications.
- Go to the Julia download website: https://julialang.org/downloads/.
- Download the executable: 64-bit (.glibc) (for distributions like Ubuntu or Mint)
- Enter the compressed folder and extract the folder
julia-1.9.x
to your Home directory. - Inside the folder
julia-1.9.x
(wherex
is the version of Julia) there should be another folder namedbin
. Get the path to that folder by clicking with the right button of your mouse and choosing Properties - Return to your Home directory and search for a file called
.profile
- At the end of the file
.profile
addPATH="/home/<user>/<julia-1.9.x>/bin:$PATH"
- Please restart your PC right now.
🎉 Well done! By now, Julia should be correctly installed in your PC.
To run it, open a terminal and run: julia
↩ Enter
Installing Pluto
Next we will install Pluto. Remember Pluto is a Julia Package. This means that we install it and run it from inside Julia.
- Run Julia the way you were told at the end of the installation instructions above (it varies according to te OS you have). You should bee seeing a window like this:
- With Julia running, type the character
]
, usually by using the keyboard combination AltGr+9 or Ctrl+Alt+9. The previous window should become like this
- Then type:
add Pluto
↩ Enter - When the Pluto installation is completed, press ⟵ Backscape to leave the
pkg>
mode and go back to thejulia>
mode.
🎉 Well done! By now, Pluto should be correctly installed in your PC. To start Pluto, in the Julia window run:
import Pluto; Pluto.run()
↩ Enter
Pluto will run in a window of your default Browser (we recommend Google Chrome or Firefox).