How to upgrade easily?

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@rdeits

For example, if you had Julia 1.2 installed, and you then added Julia 1.3, you could do:

cp ~/.julia/environments/v1.2 ~/.julia/environments/v1.3

and then launch Julia and do:

pkg> instantiate

Thanks. Thats basically how I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2 and it was completely painless, and it’s nice to have both versions installed if ever wanting to go back and try something in previous version. I followed the advice of @StevenSiew and @Tamas_Papp in these two posts in the " Julia v1.2.0 has been released" announcement thread:

Julia v1.2.0 has been released

When I upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1, someone gave me these instructions. Are these instructions still valid for the upgrade of 1.1 to 1.2 Note that if you want to keep the same packages as in 1.0 you can copy (or rename if you are no longer using julia 1.0) the .julia/environments/v1.0 folder to .julia/environments/v1.1 $ cd ~/.julia $ cd environments/ $ ls v1.0 $ cp -rp v1.0 v1.1 $ ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 ssiew staff 136 18 Aug 2018 v1.0 drwxr-xr-x 4 ssiew staff 136 18 Aug 2018 v1.1…

and

Julia v1.2.0 has been released

Pretty much yes, but of course you would have to modify cp -rp v1.1 v1.2 if you are upgrading from 1.1. symlinking everything to a common directory is also an alternative: