As mentioned earlier, Julia is open source and is available for free. It can be downloaded from the website at http://julialang.org/downloads/.
The website has links to documentation, tutorials, learning, videos, and examples. The documentation can be downloaded in popular formats, as shown in the following screenshot:

It is highly recommended to use the generic binaries for Linux provided on the julialang.org website.
As Ubuntu and Fedora are widely used Linux distributions, a few developers were kind enough to make the installation on these distributions easier by providing it through package manager. We will go through them in the following sections.