This repository contains the snapcraft build files to build a snap package for Julia and its Atom-base IDE Juno.

• The Julia distribution simple repackages the official generic Linux binaries.
• The Juno snap includes a wrapper script that starts Atom in $HOME/.juno and sets up a .desktop file, making it look like a separate IDE.

To build the snaps, cd into either julia/ or juno/ and call snapcraft, e.g.:

$ cd julia/
$ snapcraft

To install the snaps:

$ snap install <snap-file>.snap --classic --dangerous

The snaps use classic confinement. --dangerous is necessary because the local builds are not signed.

There appears to be a bug in either Snappy or Node.js that makes it problematic to run a snap binary from Node.js that is distributed as a snap (see nodesource/distributions#663 for more information). For Juno/Julia this means that Atom (which uses Node.js) can not start snap-packages julia binary packaged properly.

You have two options:

1. Do not use the Atom snap distribution.
2. Change the Julia path to the full binary path /snap/julia/current/bin/julia in the julia-client package settings in Atom.