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Mention debian and homebrew packages in README.
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Viral B. Shah committed Dec 24, 2012
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## Binary Installation

Because of the rapid pace of development at this point, we recommend installing the latest Julia from source, but platform-specific tarballs with pre-compiled binaries are also [available for download](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/downloads).
To install from source, download the appropriate tarball and untar it somewhere.
For example, if you are on an OS X (Darwin) x86/64 system, do the following:

wget https://github.com/downloads/JuliaLang/julia/julia-c4865bd18d-Darwin-i386.tar.gz
tar zxvf julia-c4865bd18d-Darwin-i386.tar.gz

You can either run the `julia` executable using its full path in the directory created above, or add that directory to your executable path so that you can run the julia program from anywhere (in the current shell session):

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If everything works correctly, you will see a Julia banner and an interactive prompt into which you can enter expressions for evaluation.
You can read about [getting started](http:https://julialang.org/manual/getting-started) in the manual.

An [Arch Linux package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=56877) is also available.
An [Arch Linux package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=56877) is also available. Julia has also been added to [Debian](http:https://packages.debian.org/sid/julia). On OS X, julia is available through [homebrew](http:https://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/).


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