I am trying to setup Julia with Google Colab. Installation instructions as in https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-on-google-colab-free-gpu-accelerated-shareable-notebooks/15319 have been followed. Despite that, I am unable to launch Julia.
I am trying to use Julia with Google Colab. I followed the following steps:
!wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.0/Prod/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-9-0-local_9.0.176-1_amd64-deb
!dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-9-0-local_9.0.176-1_amd64-deb
!apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-9-0-local/7fa2af80.pub
!apt update -q
!apt install cuda gcc-6 g++-6 -y -q
!ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/gcc
!ln -s /usr/bin/g++-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/g++
!curl -sSL "https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.2/julia-1.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz" -o julia.tar.gz
!tar -xzf julia.tar.gz -C /usr --strip-components 1
!rm -rf julia.tar.gz*
!julia -e 'using Pkg; pkg"add IJulia; add CuArrays; add Flux; precompile"'
The above two steps run perfectly fine. I am unable to initiate a Julia session. I tried:
!julia
With this, the Julia start-up screen keeps showing with no command-line.
Turns out that it was just the sequence of steps that was wrong. Very helpful video posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZo3L2dYTY. Just to reiterate:
{
"nbformat": 4,
"nbformat_minor": 0,
"metadata": {
"colab": {
"name": "Julia on Colab.ipynb",
"version": "0.3.2",
"provenance": []
},
"kernelspec": {
"name": "julia-1.2",
"display_name": "Julia 1.2"
},
"accelerator": "GPU"
},
"cells": [
{
"metadata": {
"id": "oMSuTc3pDlHv",
"colab_type": "code",
"colab": {}
},
"cell_type": "code",
"source": [
""
],
"execution_count": 0,
"outputs": []
}
]
}