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Why I stopped maintaining Julia in openSUSE

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Soc Virnyl Estela | 2025-05-15 | reading time: ~1min

So recently, I noticed that I have a lot of emails about some build problems in openSUSE, specifically, the Julia package. I attempted to package this software for openSUSE in hopes that I can help out bring the programming language to the Linux distribution. However, it was kind of hairy, not to mention, a lot of workarounds... like a lot — imagine you have to patch and create a lot of patches for the patches to patch the patches.

So I have ignored it for a very long while, thinking that I can do it in the future. But as of writing? I gave up. It's a tiresome software to package, and it is incompatible most of the time with OpenBuildService's policies.

But if you still want to use Julia in openSUSE, you can always use the juliaup package. It is a version multiplexer for Julia similar to rustup. Just run the following command on your terminal if you are using openSUSE.

sudo zypper install juliaup

Nothing much I can say further as this is just a small update. Bye!

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