I am using curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh to install Julia on Kubuntu 24.10. I get this error: info: downloading installer curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination juliaup: command failed: downloader https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/juliaup/bin/juliainstaller-1.17.9-x86_64-…

Is this your personal machine or some other shared system you have access to? Are you able to write to the /tmp directory? What’s the output of the terminal command ls -lhd /tmp ?

It is a personal laptop. The command ls -lhd /tmp returns this response: drwxrwxrwt 20 root root 4,0K dec 29 17:03 /tmp Thx!

What happens if you do echo test > /tmp/foobar cat /tmp/foobar mkdir /tmp/tmpdir-foobar ls -l /tmp/tmpdir-foobar

What does … mount | grep /tmp … say?

There’s been a previous thread on this problem. You can try making a temporary directory in your home folder where you have write permission [image] Installation fails (on Ubuntu 22) when using instruction (via curl): `curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination` mkdir ~/tmp and then expor…

This seems to work properly: ideapad@ideapad-80ru:~$ echo test > /tmp/foobar ideapad@ideapad-80ru:~$ cat /tmp/foobar test ideapad@ideapad-80ru:~$ mkdir /tmp/tmpdir-foobar ideapad@ideapad-80ru:~$ ls -l /tmp/tmpdir-foobar total 0

I remember having installed Curl with sudo apt, not with Snap. The other posts are getting to technical for me

Installation problem

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giordano December 30, 2024, 11:40am 7

That’s not a problem, it simply indicates a fully static executable which bundles the musl C library, and thus can be run on any other x86-64 Linux system:

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