Raspberry Pi

How to Install Julia on Raspberry Pi

Julia is a high-end language, which is well supported on all Raspberry Pi versions, developed by the MIT-based company called Julia. It combines the ease of use with R and Python using the speed of Fortan and C++. It allows users to quickly write code for numerical and scientific computing. You can use this language in various applications, such as web development, data science and much more.

If you want to install Julia on your Raspberry Pi, follow this tutorial.

Install Julia on Raspberry Pi

To install Julia on Raspberry Pi, follow the below-written steps:

Step 1: Update/Upgrade the Raspberry Pi repository by using the below-written command:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade

Step 2: Then install Julia from the official repository by using the below-mentioned command:

$ sudo apt install julia

Step 3: Then verify the installation of Julia by running the below-mentioned version command:

$ julia --version

The installation of Julia is finished here.

Use Julia on Raspberry Pi

To learn how to use Julia on Raspberry Pi, let’s start running simple programs.

For that purpose, first run Julia on Raspberry Pi system from the following command:

$ julia

Then you can easily run any Julia code.

Here, I am printing a hello message in Julia environment using the following code:

Example

print("Hello LinuxHint Users")

Similarly, you can perform numerical operations like adding two numbers to get the results as shown below:

Example

8+9

Remove Julia on Raspberry Pi?

To remove Julia from Raspberry Pi, simply run the below-written apt remove command in the terminal:

$ sudo apt remove julia

Conclusion

Julia is a high-end language developed by the MIT-based company called Julia. It can be installed easily from the official Raspberry Pi repository by simply running the apt command. After installation, you can run Julia in the terminal through “julia” command.

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Zahra Zamir

An Electronics graduate who loves to learn and share the knowledge, my passion for my field has helped me grasp complex electronics concepts and now I am here to share them with others.