JuliaCon2021

Setup Instructions

Docker Instructions

Ensure you have docker installed.

docker run -p 8888:8888 -it ghcr.io/codewithsk/juliacon2021:latest

This should start a local jupyter notebook instance with the notebooks required for this tutorial.

Setting it up from scratch

Install Julia

1. Download Julia v1.6.1 for your environment here

$ wget https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.6/julia-1.6.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

2. Install Julia for your environment here

$ wget https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.6/julia-1.6.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf julia-1.6.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ echo "PATH=\${PATH}:$(pwd)/julia-1.6.1/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

3. Ensure you have Julia Installed

$ julia -v
julia version 1.6.1

4. Install IJulia

$ julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("IJulia")'

Setup Jupyter

1. Install Anaconda from here

$ sh $(wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2021.05-Linux-x86_64.sh)

2. Add conda to your path variable

$ echo "PATH=\${PATH}:$(pwd)/anaconda3/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

3. Ensure that the Julia kernel exists with Jupyter

$ jupyter kernelspec list
Available kernels:
  julia-1.6    /home/ubuntu/.local/share/jupyter/kernels/julia-1.6
  python3      /home/ubuntu/anaconda3/share/jupyter/kernels/python3

Setup PyCall

1. Install Conda.jl

$ julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("Conda")'

2. Install PyCall

$ julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("PyCall"); ENV["PYTHON"]=""; Pkg.build("PyCall")'

3. Install AWS Braket

$ julia -e 'using Conda; Conda.pip_interop(true); Conda.pip("install", "amazon-braket-sdk")'

4. Verify the right version of Braket has been installed

$ julia -e 'using PyCall; braket = pyimport("braket._sdk"); println(braket.__version__)'
1.7.2