Here’s my workflow: Transitioning from Ubuntu PPA to official binaries - #2 by rdeits
The primary difference from what @John_Gibson suggested is that I make a symlink to the julia executable and put it in a directory which is already on the PATH (like /usr/local/bin) instead of modifying PATH in .bashrc.
I prefer this approach because it means that programs which are not launched from bash (and thus don’t read your .bashrc or .bash_profile) will still be able to find Julia.