# Running julia from a shell
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [March 23, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395 "2020-03-23T15:24:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@AhmedAlreweny](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AhmedAlreweny)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/1 "2020-03-23T15:24:24Z")
I am trying to run a Julia code on a cluster shell (linux-based). I tried to to generate an .exe or .so file using [PackageCompiler.jl](https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl) to avoid having to install all of the libraries and the packages that are used in the file. However, it didn’t work out. My question is how could I execute my code on the cluster knowing that I don’t have the access to install any additional modules other than (Julia/1.3.1).
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### Author:  [@KajWiik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KajWiik)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/2 "2020-03-23T17:14:59Z")
Typically clusters have shared disks, so you can install julia somewhere in home directory and make a soft link to a directory that is in your PATH, e.g. ~/bin. The following may help (with follow-ups):
> [@Start Julia via SLURM batch script on remote node](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/start-julia-via-slurm-batch-script-on-remote-node/33885/3):
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> Here’s how I set up Julia in a cluster, this also sets up CUDA but you can ignore that.
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### Author:  [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/3 "2020-03-23T17:47:00Z")
@AhmedAlreweny the shared disk is the way to go here.
May I ask which cluster you are using? Ask your friendly cluster admin what shared filesystems are available to you.
Bring them cookies!
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### Author:  [@AhmedAlreweny](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AhmedAlreweny)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/4 "2020-03-27T13:30:34Z")
I have found a .Julia/ directory installed in my $HOME (because I installed the packages directly there), I have 2 questions at this point:
1. How could I move the Julia dirc to `$DATA` instead of `$HOME`? Should I reinstall in again, or could I just use `cp` for that?
2. I don’t see how should I make the soft link? What will be the file and source in that case?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/5 "2020-03-27T14:52:57Z")
You could use the rsync tool to copy the .Julia irectory to $DATA/Julia
Also please send us the results of the command ‘module avail’
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### Author:  [@AhmedAlreweny](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AhmedAlreweny)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/6 "2020-03-27T14:57:19Z")
` Julia/1.3.1` is the julia version that I get when I run `module av`
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### Author:  [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/7 "2020-03-27T15:09:13Z")
Aha! Well someone on your cluster has created a Modules environment for Julia.
Can you look at that output and find where the module files are stored?
There is a line like this in the output:
------------------------------------------------------------ /usr/share/modulefiles -----
OR tell us what printenv MODULEPATH says
SO please let us know what the module file contains:
cat /usr/share/modulefiles/Julia/1.3.1
Your MODULESPATH will not be /usr/share/modulefiles - but it will be similar to that.
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### Author:  [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/9 "2020-03-27T15:12:22Z")
My apology. You have told us in the first post that you have the Julia/1.3.1 module