# Determining whether julia is "self-built" or "shipped"

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/determining-whether-julia-is-self-built-or-shipped/29404
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/determining-whether-julia-is-self-built-or-shipped/29404 "2019-10-02T12:55:26Z")
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I hope I am not getting this totally wrong…  
On your workstation you are building Julia from source.

However in the container build you should be pulling Julia won as a ‘shipped’ piece of software from the Julialang site. Am I understanding this correctly?

This may help: [ANN: JILL - Julia Installer 4 Linux (and MacOS) - Light](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-jill-julia-installer-4-linux-and-macos-light/27234)

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