# How do I add \[1.5.3\] to VS code in Ubuntu?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, linux, vscode\
**Created:** [January 10, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127 "2021-01-10T23:03:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/21 "2021-01-11T21:30:32Z")

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I am not sure what your status is now. Do you still require help? If you’ve exported your path properly (and the executable path is left blank), the language server extension should also launch 1.5.3. I’d also advise to make sure everything (i.e. vscode and extension) are updated.

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/22 "2021-01-11T21:33:56Z")

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I can’t find the latest version of the Julia extension in the VS marketplace, and the version is old, but you can see, that I have 1.5.3 in my Linux terminal, so I can run  
Pluto, and should be able to run Jupyter. I guess I’d like to get it working in VS Code, but it’s not necessary.

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/23 "2021-01-11T21:41:25Z")

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Julia and Julia Extension for vscode are two very separate things with different version numbers. Julia is the programming language and can be used with any editor of your choice (or even directly from the terminal). Your Julia version is 1.5.3, but you may have other versions installed as well.

The Julia Extension for vscode is an extension primarily built with typescript (I think) and interfaces with the features provided in vscode. It’s got functionality for launching code, showing inline results, showing plots, providing a debugging toolchain, linting, and overall interacting with the julia REPL. The current version of this extension is [1.0.12](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/tags) (you have 1.0.10 which is fairly new as well but you can update if you want). So everything seems fine to me.

I don’t understand though why your Julia REPL in vscode defaults to some `1.0` version. This is likely because you’ve told the extension to look for Julia in a particular location and thus overwriting the mechanism that uses the `$PATH` variable. Can you show your JSON settings file? And make sure your executable path is left blank?

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/24 "2021-01-14T02:25:08Z")

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I think 1.0.4 is the snaps version, I downloaded 1.5.3 and 1.6 later. That’s why I thought I had to put a new location. So, it would use the later version instead of the one I downloaded first.

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/25 "2021-01-14T02:31:53Z")

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I tried to change from 1.5.3 to 1.6, and it loaded 1.0.4 .

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/26 "2021-01-14T02:33:51Z")

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Unless of course 1.6 Linux has the 1.0.4 load screen. Plots loaded faster to Pluto than 1.5.3, I might try something like ModelingToolkit.jl, that doesn’t work right in older versions.

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No, it’s not likely that the 1.6 version has “1.0.4” on the launch screen. That would’ve been caught already in testing.

Recall I said that when you type in `julia` it traverses the folders stored in `$PATH`. And it does so sequentially and as soon as it finds the first folder where `julia` resides, thats the one it launches.

Notice how you modify your `$PATH`:

```julia
export PATH = "$PATH:$HOME/Julia...." 

```

which basically adds your 1.6 folder at the very end.

What this means is that you likely have another julia binary (the 1.0.4 version) in one of the folders stored in `$PATH`. If you run

```julia
affan@XPS13:~$ which julia
/usr/bin/julia

```

it will tell you where the actual binary is located. You should likely delete that binary as its the old version. I have a feeling that if you installed 1.0.4, the binary likely exists in `/usr/bin/julia` or `/usr/local/bin/julia`

Can you tell me what the output it for `which julia`?

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/29 "2021-01-16T17:59:44Z")

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It’s better to leave that field blank and just modify your PATH so that the correct julia version launches. Well maybe not better, but that’s how I would do it.

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/30 "2021-01-16T20:32:27Z")

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> [@brett\_knoss](#):
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> `export PATH="~/Julia/julia-1.6.0-beta1-linux-x86_64/julia-1.6.0-beta1/bin:$PATH"`

Where do I modify my path? is that the JSON in VS?

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/31 "2021-01-16T22:00:16Z")

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No, your system path: [PATH (variable) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable))

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No. Has nothing to do with vscode or JSON. See my reply here: [How do I add [1.5.3] to VS code in Ubuntu? - #13 by affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/13)

`PATH` is a Linux environment variable. It is a list of directories that Linux uses to search for particular binaries. It is how when you type in a binary say `julia` or `echo`, it knows where the binary is. So if you want to know which particular julia binary when you type in `julia`, you can see that by running `whereis julia`. The point is that you should include your julia directory in the path variable (if its not already there) so that simply typing in `julia` will launch the correct version, and that goes for vscode also. You can modify `PATH` by using the `export` function.

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**Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/33 "2021-01-26T19:30:37Z")

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Ok, thanks, sorry I didn’t get back sooner. The export works, but I have to reset it each time I start a new session. Why is this and how do I get it to stay?

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There is a file in your home directory called `.bashrc` (notice the dot). Modify this file and add the `export` statement in there as a new line.

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**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-add-1-5-3-to-vs-code-in-ubuntu/53127/35 "2021-01-27T04:54:07Z")

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No, I don’t see any file like that, might it be hidden?

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Yes, files that begin with `.` are hidden. Use `ls -a` to show all files. If you don’t have it, you can just create it yourself. Call it `.bashrc`

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Ok, that found it. Now how do I open it?

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It’s just a text file so you can edit it anyway you want. You can open it in vscode (since I know you have that installed), or you could use `gedit` or `vi` (which are terminal based editors) or any other editor that comes with Linux. It’s a simple text file.

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I meant what terminal command do I use to open the file, (text editor would be fine, but changing default to VS code wouldn’t hurt).

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To open the file using vscode (assuming the binary is also in your `$PATH`) you can type in

```julia
code .bashrc # open using vscode 
gedit .bashrc # using gedit (probably the easiest) 
vi .bashrc # would not recommend if you don't know what vi is. 

```

or commands for any other text editors you have installed. Are you working on headless Ubuntu? Do you not have a GUI? It might just be easier to up the GUI file explorer and double click the file like in windows.

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Thanks, got it set up.

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