Using julia in a Development Container

Tooling VS Code
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I’m on Windows 11 with docker running in WSL2.
On Windows I’m using Visual Studio Code with Dev Container extension.
I have created a folder julia with a .devcontainer subfolder containining a devcontainer.json like the following:

{
    "name": "Julia",
    "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:ubuntu",
    "features": {
        "ghcr.io/julialang/devcontainer-features/julia:1": {
            "channel": "release"
        },
        "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/common-utils:2": {
            "installZsh": "true",
            "configureZshAsDefaultShell": true,
            "username": "vscode",
            "upgradePackages": "true"
        }
    },
    
    "customizations": {
        "vscode": {
            "extensions": [
                "julialang.language-julia"
            ]
        }
    },
    
    "postCreateCommand": "julia-activate"    
}

Once I open the julia folder in Visual Studio Code, after it opens the container, I get the following error:

Running the postCreateCommand from Feature 'ghcr.io/julialang/devcontainer-features/julia:1'...

[7271 ms] Start: Run in container: /bin/sh -c /usr/local/julia-devcontainer-features/postcreate.jl

/usr/bin/env: 'julia': No such file or directory
exit status 127


[7332 ms] julia-activate of postCreateCommand from Feature 'ghcr.io/julialang/devcontainer-features/julia:1' failed with exit code 127. Skipping any further user-provided commands.
Done. Press any key to close the terminal.
2

@alessio You may be interested in b-data’s/my (CUDA-based) Data Science dev containers.

Open in GitHub Codespaces

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I’m running into this problem: I have the same issue when building b-data’s project