title: Julia in Google Colab
body: <p>I am trying to setup Julia with Google Colab. Installation instructions as in <a href="https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-on-google-colab-free-gpu-accelerated-shareable-notebooks/15319" rel="noreferrer">https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-on-google-colab-free-gpu-accelerated-shareable-notebooks/15319</a> have been followed. Despite that, I am unable to launch Julia.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to use Julia with Google Colab. I followed the following steps:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Install CUDA</li>
  </ol>
  
  <pre><code>!wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.0/Prod/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-9-0-local_9.0.176-1_amd64-deb
  !dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-9-0-local_9.0.176-1_amd64-deb
  !apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-9-0-local/7fa2af80.pub
  !apt update -q
  !apt install cuda gcc-6 g++-6 -y -q
  !ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/gcc
  !ln -s /usr/bin/g++-6 /usr/local/cuda/bin/g++
  </code></pre>
  
  <ol start="2">
  <li>Install Julia 1.2.0</li>
  </ol>
  
  <pre><code>!curl -sSL "https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.2/julia-1.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz" -o julia.tar.gz
  !tar -xzf julia.tar.gz -C /usr --strip-components 1
  !rm -rf julia.tar.gz*
  !julia -e 'using Pkg; pkg"add IJulia; add CuArrays; add Flux; precompile"'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The above two steps run perfectly fine. I am unable to initiate a Julia session. I tried: </p>
  
  <pre><code>
  !julia
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>With this, the Julia start-up screen keeps showing with no command-line.</p>