title: How to install Julia in an anaconda environment?
body: <p>One of the main features of Anaconda is that it is language agnostic as stated in their <a href="http://continuum.io/blog/conda_packaging" rel="noreferrer">blog</a>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You can create environments of any binary dependency tree (different
    versions of Python, R, Julia, etc.).</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Recently I switched from using virtualenv to Anaconda in Python, so I was curious to try Julia in an Anaconda environment. However, I couldn't find instructions explicit enough to install Julia successfully. First, I tried naively <code>conda create -n julia-test julia</code>. Obviously, it didn't work. Then I <a href="https://binstar.org/wakari1/julia" rel="noreferrer">found</a> at binstar.org a Julia package (version 0.3) with the code </p>
  
  <pre><code>conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/wakari1 julia
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I don't want to install Julia outside of a specific virtual environment, so I changed it to: </p>
  
  <pre><code>conda create -n julia-test -c https://conda.binstar.org/wakari1 julia
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It didn't throw errors but ultimately failed to start the Julia interpreter.</p>
  
  <p>So, what is the correct way of installing Julia (0.2, preferably) in an anaconda environment?</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong> </p>
  
  <p>As of March 2018, Julia v0.6.1 is available for linux-64 on the conda-forge channel: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/julia" rel="noreferrer">https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/julia</a></p>
  
  <p>It has been set up to install packages inside <code>&lt;env_prefix&gt;/share/julia/site</code>, to maintain isolation from the user's <code>~/.julia</code> user's home directory.</p>
  
  <p><code>conda create -n julia -c conda-forge julia</code></p>