I have been unable to access the julia documentation pdf, have been unable to access juliabox and have been unable to download the julia language tarball. I am dead in the water. What is going on. I am using Mint Linux and Firefox web browser.
Jim Dukleow
Julia newbie and to a somewhat lesser extent a Linux newbie
So the installation instructions on the website to run
curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh
In a terminal don’t work for you? What error are you getting?
You mention JuliaBox, this service hasn’t been around for many years.
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Where are you trying to download the PDF from? Likewise where are you trying to download a Julia tarball from? JuliaBox hasn’t existed for many years. Is it possible you are trying to follow instructions that are very out of date?
I just spent a couple of days reading Think Julia and was following suggestions there. I was trying to download from the Julia website. My preference is a Linux executable binary, rather than a tarball. I tried the curl etc. CLI command, but my attempt had a typo. I will correct it and try again. There seems to something called JuliaHub offering functionality similar to Juliabox, but at a price.
Just a heads up: it’s easier to help when you describe what you did in detail, show the code or shell commands you ran and the resulting error message (or describe the resulting unexpected behavior). “Unable to download the tarball” isn’t descriptive at all, a better version could be “I ran this command: blah-blah and got the following error message: blah-blah”. See: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier-to-help-you.
ThinkJulia and JuliaBox are from a few years ago. Software doesn’t age well - services are closed down, books and documents go out of date quickly, and packages are continually updated in an attempt to keep up with new computers and operating systems, and other packages. It’s a common source of problems for all users.
If you look at the ThinkJulia.jl repository on Github, on the Issues tab, you’ll find a list of problems you might encounter when trying to use it today.
Think Julia is a bit old at this point. JuliaHub is the company that made JuliaBox. The free notebook service was not financially sustainable and had to be sunsetted. The recommended way to install Julia is detailed at Redirecting….
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