Package management
We have noted that Julia uses Git as a repository for itself and for its package and that the installation has a built-in package manager, so there is no need to interface directly to GitHub. This repository is located in the Git folder of the installed system.
As a full discussion of the package system is given on the Julia website, we will only cover some of the main commands to use.
Listing, adding, and removing
After installing Julia, the user can create a new repository by using the Pkg.init() command. This clones the metadata from a "well-known" repository and creates a local folder called .julia:
julia> Pkg.init() INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users\Malcolm INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://Github.com/JuliaLang ...
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