# Julia 0.6 and 0.7 living together in harmony in one environment

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-and-0-7-living-together-in-harmony-in-one-environment/9343
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [February 26, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-and-0-7-living-together-in-harmony-in-one-environment/9343 "2018-02-26T15:56:31Z")
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### Author: ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-and-0-7-living-together-in-harmony-in-one-environment/9343/5 "2018-02-26T17:37:08Z")

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You also shouldn’t need to set `JULIA_HOME` or `JULIA_BINDIR` to anything. Julia will automatically pick up its home from wherever the binary lives if those environment variables are not set. e.g.

```julia
   _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
   _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` | |
  | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.5.2 (2017-05-06 16:34 UTC)
 _/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org/ release
|__/ | x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

julia> JULIA_HOME
"/home/rdeits/apps/julia-0.5.2/bin"

```

```julia
   _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
   _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` | |
  | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.6.2 (2017-12-13 18:08 UTC)
 _/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org/ release
|__/ | x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

julia> JULIA_HOME
"/home/rdeits/apps/julia-0.6.2/bin"

```

```julia
   _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
   _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` | |
  | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.7.0-DEV.3740 (2018-02-07 15:44 UTC)
 _/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit e87982096a (19 days old master)
|__/ | x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

julia> Sys.BINDIR
"/home/rdeits/apps/julia-0.7-e87982096a/bin"

```

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