Installing Julia & Unfold Packages

Installing Julia

The recommended way to install julia is juliaup.

TL;DR: If you don't want to read the explicit instructions, just copy the following command:

Windows: winget install julia -s msstore
Mac/Linux: curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh

We further recommend to use VSCode and install the Julia Extension.

Installing UnfoldXYZ.jl

The following instructions are intended for Julia beginners. More advanced Julia users can jump ahead to step 3.

1. Start an interactive Julia session ("REPL")

Option 1: Type julia in the command line.
Option 2: In VSCode, press Ctrl + Shift + P to open the command palette and type in Julia: Start REPL.

2. Activate your project environment

Before installing UnfoldXYZ.jl make sure that you activated your project environment.

Option 1: cd("/path/to/your/project") and ]activate .
Option 2: ]activate /path/to/your/project/

Hint

After activating you should see (environment) pkg> (where environment is the name of your project folder). If you see (@v1.11) pkg> instead, you still have to activate your environment.

Note that by typing ] you enter the Julia package manager. To get back to the Julia REPL, press backspace.

3. Install the UnfoldXYZ.jl package

If you are not in the package manager anymore, type ].
Then type add UnfoldXYZ - e.g. add UnfoldSim.

After the installation is finished you can use using UnfoldXYZ in the REPL to import the package.

Written by Judith Schepers