Configuring Rocky Linux 8 for Quantitative Analysis in Julia

May 24, 2022

Install Jupyter

Start with installing jupyter. It will serve as our server for development.

sudo dnf install gcc python3-devel kernel-headers-$(uname -r)

pip3 install --user jupyter

We will be installing from the official binaries.

Make a directory in user profile. i simply ran mkdir julia in the home folder. The cd to julia.

When in the folder run

wget https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.7/julia-1.7.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Then unpack

tar zxvf julia-1.7.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

In my case I added the following to my shell profile.


export PATH="$PATH:/home/jnapolitano/julia/julia-1.7.2/bin/"

I will be working through the QuantEcon textbook provided at https://julia.quantecon.org/.


git clone https://github.com/quantecon/lecture-julia.notebooks

Run a julia repl by typing julia into your terminal... if you added it to the path. Otherwise navigate to the bin and activate julia.

Next run the following commands from the Julia REPL.


using Pkg

Pkg.activate(".")

Pkg.instantiate()

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IT will take some time to download and extract all of the packages give it time.