# Julia 1.5 installation on MacOS

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-5-installation-on-macos/54706>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [February 5, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-5-installation-on-macos/54706 "2021-02-05T22:52:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![rverdier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rverdier/32/9104_2.png) [@rverdier](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rverdier)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-5-installation-on-macos/54706/1 "2021-02-05T22:52:23Z")

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The download instructions in [julialang.org](http://julialang.org) say to install using a furnished .dmg file, but I don’t see it. Where is it?

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-5-installation-on-macos/54706/2 "2021-02-05T23:03:59Z")

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On the downloads page: [Download Julia](https://julialang.org/downloads/#current_stable_release)

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**Author:** ![rverdier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rverdier/32/9104_2.png) [@rverdier](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rverdier)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-5-installation-on-macos/54706/3 "2021-02-06T18:40:56Z")

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Thank you; I’d visited that page many times but didn’t realize that the “64” linked to a disk image. I was able to install and test Jula 1.5 with my graphics applications successfully.  
I want also to install Julia 1.5 in Ubuntu 17 (running in VirtualBox) but the only link I found is to a compressed image that Linux could not open, and the recommended

sudo apt install julia

failed to get a needed lock. Should I ask this a new topic?

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**Author:** ![pnavaro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pnavaro/32/5008_2.png) [@pnavaro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pnavaro)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-5-installation-on-macos/54706/4 "2021-02-07T12:42:18Z")

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You can use Homebrew [https://brew.sh](https://brew.sh)

`brew install julia`

and `brew upgrade` for updates.

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-5-installation-on-macos/54706/5 "2021-02-07T14:37:31Z")

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You can use [jill](https://github.com/abelsiqueira/jill) on both platforms. I love it. It basically just automates the “download from website and install” part. Super simple.

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**Author:** ![rverdier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rverdier/32/9104_2.png) [@rverdier](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rverdier)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-5-installation-on-macos/54706/6 "2021-02-07T21:40:36Z")

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Thanks for your reply.  
Julia was already installed in my Ubuntu 17 VM running in VirtualBox under MacOS 10.14, but whenever I try to use Gtk,  
it crashes Ubuntu hard. The information I found on installing jill said to use  
sudo bash -ci “$(curl -fsSL [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abelsiqueira/jill/master/jill.sh](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abelsiqueira/jill/master/jill.sh))”  
I did this in my Ubuntu 17 Terminal and got

Error 404 File not found  
But the same URL works in MacOS 10.14.  
Other things-- Firefox, editor, and very complicated Python graphics applications-- work perfectly in my Ubuntu 17 VM.  
I would appreciate info from anybody who has run Julia successfully in Ubuntu 17. I’m having difficulty installing Ubuntu 20,  
but I’ll try Julia in that when I get it installed.