I can't remember if I installed Julia through the package manager, or if it was part of the default stuff that gets installed, like Perl and Python. I'd like to know whether or not I can assume that all Solus users have it available, thanks,

  • I don't think that Julia is part of a Solus installation:
    a) I do not seem to have it installed on my GNOME/Budgie system
    b) a quick search in Forum brought up this sync note stating that the Julia package in repo was replaced with juliaup, a cross-platform installer for the Julia programming language, which again, is not installed on my system.

    Another way to check for yourself if you installed it or not is eopkg history:
    You could run eopkg history >> eopkg_history.txt in terminal and then search for julia in eopkg_history.txt with your favorite text editor.

I don't think that Julia is part of a Solus installation:
a) I do not seem to have it installed on my GNOME/Budgie system
b) a quick search in Forum brought up this sync note stating that the Julia package in repo was replaced with juliaup, a cross-platform installer for the Julia programming language, which again, is not installed on my system.

Another way to check for yourself if you installed it or not is eopkg history:
You could run eopkg history >> eopkg_history.txt in terminal and then search for julia in eopkg_history.txt with your favorite text editor.

    Sebastian I found the sync note when searching the topic, but I'm pretty sure that stuff will be in the repository whether or not it installs with the OS. I should've thought of just checking history, thanks for that! As I didn't find it, but I did find the Julia package in my /Download dir, and I then realized that it resides in ~/.local now I'm assuming that I did it.

    I run Solus in a VM, and am not logged in typically, I'm old and like to fiddle with stuff before making big jumps, and I think that explains a lot of my unfamiliarity with it. Anyway, thanks for the input!

        BloodFeastMan Sorry if my answer might have led to a misunderstanding or came across a bit harsh.
        You are totally right in your assumption that packages that come preinstalled are also part of the repo.
        That's why I was first confused, because after reading your initial post, I searched Software Center for Julia without success, only found the juliaup package and then checked the repo itself here. I didn't understand first why there were julia packges in the repo, but not in the Software Center, until I found out about the deprecation.

        If a Team member is reading this: is there any other way I might have found out about deprecation of julia instead of the snyc notes or comparing https://packages.getsol.us/shannon/j/ with the Software Center search result?
        Like, is there something like a log file or similar that lists all deprecated packages where one could investigate for deprecated packages? Following the matrix channels I have the impression that you yourself in some cases only realize after a while that a package was at some point part of the repo and was then deprecated.
        So, maybe here is some room for improvement.

        Anyhow, yeah, I also forget about eopkg history sometimes, but in some cases it really provides helpful information.