# Installed Julia through snap. How to install newer versions of Julia?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [February 12, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290 "2022-02-12T09:11:29Z")
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### Author:  [@munizalex](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/munizalex)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290/1 "2022-02-12T09:11:29Z")
The snap version of Julia, 1.0.4 is enough, or do I need to install a newer version of Julia?
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290/2 "2022-02-12T09:54:13Z")
The snap installer is unmaintained and deprecated. Also, based on some bug reports I’ve seen in the past, that should be a 32-bit build of Julia, which will likely perform badly on a 64-bit system.
To install Julia you can can download the official pre-built tarballs from [Download Julia](https://julialang.org/downloads/)
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290/3 "2022-02-12T10:21:15Z")
Alternatively, consider juliaup, it is a really pleasant experience on Windows at least:
> **[GitHub - JuliaLang/juliaup: Julia installer and version multiplexer](https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup)**
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> Julia installer and version multiplexer. Contribute to JuliaLang/juliaup development by creating an account on GitHub.
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### Author:  [@munizalex](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/munizalex)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290/4 "2022-02-12T10:34:16Z")
Thanks, @giordano and @juliohm! Already installed lastest Julia LTS. I am in Fedora 35 Xfce spin, I was having errors to invoke “jupyter lab” in a terminal, but now I discover a handy site to install Jypyter through pip. [Project Jupyter | Installing Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/install)
Julia is recognized in Jupyter. Thanks all of you!
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290/5 "2022-02-12T16:03:44Z")
Note that in general we recommend installing the latest stable version. There are continuously performance improvements and advancements in the compiler framework that won’t be backported to the long-term-support version. You’ll also miss out on new versions of some packages which will require only new versions of Julia.
The LTS is only good if you have a very stable pipeline that you absolutely don’t want to touch and won’t need to upgrade your packages.
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### Author:  [@mgr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mgr)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290/6 "2022-02-12T18:00:29Z")
Fedora 35 provides native (and reasonably recent) julia via yum/dnf:
```julia
yum list --installed julia
Installed Packages
julia.x86_64 1.7.1-1.fc35 @updates
```
The maintainer of Fedora’s julia binaries is @nalimilan who is also a Steward on this forum
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### Author:  [@munizalex](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/munizalex)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290/7 "2022-02-12T20:54:56Z")
Okay, now I have two Julias. One LTS and one installed via dnf. How to set the latest as default? I ask this because Julia rarely has any cover from sites. I think I will need remove the LTS version from my machine, yes?
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### Author:  [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installed-julia-through-snap-how-to-install-newer-versions-of-julia/76290/8 "2022-09-08T07:44:49Z")
> [@giordano](#):
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> The snap installer is unmaintained and deprecated.
Actually the snap is maintained again. To support the LTS, and after I mentioned it, also the stable version, or so I understand, also 64-bit. I’m on Linux Mint so I haven’t been able to confirm what it gets you.
I would still recommend juliaup, seemed to work for me on Ubuntu and now on Mint too.