An Overview Of Julia’s Different Pkg Commands

A quick overview of the various different commands for Julia’s Pkg package manager.

Introduction

Julia is an up and coming language that shows a lot of promise, so it certainly does make sense why one might want to get in and play around with some of the packages. In order to do this, however, it really can help to have some basic knowledge of Julia’s package manager. That being said, allow me to introduce you to my friend, Julia’s Pkg package manager.

The package manager works off of TOML files, which are basically just config files, and these files contain all of the dependencies of a project. Using these files, Pkg can create reproducible dependency environments that can be activated using one simple command. There is also a compatibility section inside of these files which can be used to limit different dependency versions for your project.

Basic commands