Installing julia without sudo

[Zack Maril]

I'm used to installing julia with root privileges. I'm now working in an environment where I cannot escalate my privileges. How should I install julia now?

-Zack

[Stefan Karpinski]

I just clone and make. No sudo required.

[Elliot Saba]

If you just `make`, you will have a "usr" directory inside your julia source directory.  Inside that usr directory is a directory structure very similar to what would be found in /usr/local, which is where Julia gets installed when you `sudo make install`.

To run julia from within this other directory, you just need to do one of the following:

* Run julia directly via `cd <julia_dir>/usr/bin`, and then `./julia`

* Add that bin directory to your path: `export PATH=$PATH:<julia_dir>/usr/bin`

Where <julia_dir> is the directory that the source code of julia is located at.  Note that if you put that PATH line in your .bashrc it will get run automatically when you open a new terminal.

-E

[Zack Maril]

I tried it again and it Just Worked the second time. The first it was complaining about being unable to find System.jl.

Thanks!

-Zack