Jill

Jill is a command line installer for Julia. It works with Linux and OSX via bash, and you can quickly start using it with

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abelsiqueira/jill/main/jill.sh > jill.sh
sudo bash jill.sh

More in-depth

The objectives of Jill are

• One line installation of any Julia version;
• Easy to maintain/update when a new Julia version is released;
• Be lightweight with low dependencies.

Whenever a version of Julia is installed, links are made to julia-x, julia-x.y and julia-x.y.z.

The main ways to use Jill are:

• sudo bash jill.sh: Installs the latest stable version;
• sudo bash jill.sh --lts: Installs the latest Long-Term-Support version;
• sudo bash jill.sh --rc: Installs the latest release candidate;
• sudo bash jill.sh --version x.y.z: Installs the specific version x.y.z;
• sudo bash jill.sh -u x.y: Installs the latest stable version and copies the environment from x.y.