Setting up the environment
Julia is available free. It can be downloaded from its website at the following address: http://julialang.org/downloads/. The website also has exhaustive documentation, examples, and links to tutorials and community. The documentation can be downloaded in popular formats.
Installing Julia (Linux)
Ubuntu/Linux Mint is one of the most famous Linux distros, and their deb packages of Julia are also provided. These are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit distributions.
To install Julia, add the PPA (personal package archive). Ubuntu users are privileged enough to have PPA. It is treated as an apt repository to build and publish Ubuntu source packages. In the terminal, type the following:
sudo apt-get add-repository ppa:staticfloat/juliareleases ...Get Julia for Data Science now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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