Configuring Rocky Linux 8 for Quantitative Analysis in Julia

Install Jupyter

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

Install Dependencies

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

Install Jupyter Via Pip

pip3 install --user jupyter

Install Julia

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

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

Unpack

Then unpack

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

Add to Path

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

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

Downloading the QuantEcon Project

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

Clone the repository

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

Activate the Project.

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.

Install the Dependencies

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.