Updating Julia should be easy. The easier it is, the more likely folks will develop with the latest versions, and the less friction we will have with fast paced language development. Currently, it is challenging. There are several long, unresolved discourse threads on the topic, 3rd party instructi…

Very nice package! It makes me feel silly for doing all of the downloading and symbolic linking manually this entire time. Does this support installing release candidates as well?

Yes! julia> update_julia("1.7.0-rc3") installing julia 1.7.0-rc3 This version is out of date. The latest official release is 1.7.0 [...] Right now, there are no prereleases available for 1.8, but when there are, julia> update_julia("1.8") ERROR: ArgumentError: No released versions starting with "…

Nice! Out of curiosity, what’s the reason nightlies are not supported on Linux?

Because there is a bug in the code I haven’t gotten around to fixing :slight_smile: EDIT: they are supported in UpdateJulia v0.2.1

The links for the documentation don’t work.

The README should be a complete guide & documentation. That there are broken links is bad, but I’m not sure how to fix them. EDIT: this post helped me make the link work, but the readme is probably still a better guide atm.

Is there any relation to juliaup ( GitHub - JuliaLang/juliaup: Julia installer and version multiplexer )?

Nope! I released UpdateJulia in early November 2021 for the user base of folks who already have a (possibly out of date) Julia version installed and want lightweight version instilation and management within the Julia ecosystem. At that time juliaup was a “experimental MSIX installer for Julia for …

I hope Julia will officially ship with one of these installers / updaters. Fragmentation in this area is no big deal but still unfortunate for newcomers.

[image] Lilith: this may also call for an automatic juliaup installer There are many different ways to install juliaup, all very platform dependent. BUT, all of them handle updates to juliaup itself. When juliaup is installed via one of the various system package stories (at the moment that w…

UpdateJulia

Package Announcements

ParadaCarleton December 29, 2022, 1:58am 16

Hi, and welcome to Julia! If you’re a new user and can install newer versions on your computer, chances are you’d be better off using the newest full release (1.8).

Topic		Replies	Views
Updating to the current stable release (v1.8.1) using juliaup General Usage	4	605	September 13, 2022
Nightly channel in Juliaup Tooling	16	1356	February 20, 2024
`juliaup update` does not update the Julia General Usage juliaup	4	1184	November 24, 2022
How to update Julia in Juliaup? General Usage juliaup	7	5814	September 11, 2022
Finding installed Julia version with Juliaup Tooling windows , versions , juliaup	9	5820	November 22, 2021

UpdateJulia

Related topics