# Ubuntu archive not updating?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ubuntu-archive-not-updating/44188>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, release, linux, installation, ubuntu\
**Created:** [August 3, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ubuntu-archive-not-updating/44188 "2020-08-03T13:23:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ldsands](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ldsands/32/2800_2.png) [@ldsands](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ldsands)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ubuntu-archive-not-updating/44188/1 "2020-08-03T13:23:03Z")

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Hello everyone,

[Index of /ubuntu/pool/universe/j/julia](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/j/julia/) which houses the Julia binaries that is used by apt-get on ubuntu has not been updated since April. Is there a reason for this? I figured I’d post this here first and maybe post it [here](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/new) as well if need be. I prefer to install from apt-get because it is so much easier to do than downloading from the julialang website.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

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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:** [August 3, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ubuntu-archive-not-updating/44188/2 "2020-08-03T13:34:12Z")

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AFAIK the Julia apt repo is not managed by any of the Julia developers. I’m not sure who _is_ in charge of it, but it definitely has problems (e.g. [Bug involving permutedims function - #2 by rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bug-involving-permutedims-function/43492/2) ).

I would recommend using the official binaries from [julialang.org](http://julialang.org) instead–they’re official, more up-to-date, and less likely to have unexpected bugs.

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**Author:** ![ldsands](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ldsands/32/2800_2.png) [@ldsands](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ldsands)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ubuntu-archive-not-updating/44188/3 "2020-08-03T13:55:41Z")

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Good to know. It is too bad though that the easiest way to get Julia on Ubuntu has these issues. Oh well.

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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:** [August 3, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ubuntu-archive-not-updating/44188/4 "2020-08-03T13:59:14Z")

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Yeah, I agree it’s too bad. Managing apt versions of frequently-updated tools always seems to be a bit of a mess (e.g. I’ve spent lots of time doing `apt remove python-foo; pip install foo` because the version of `foo` in `apt` is ancient or broken somehow).