Installation

Option 1: Pre-compiled binary (Recommended)

Users can run MILK without installing Julia on your system.

[!IMPORTANT] Pre-release note: currently, the x86 (64-bit) build is provided1

Download the latest milk build from the Latest Releases page.

Extract binary:

tar -xzf milk-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Export to PATH (replace /path/to with the actual download location):

export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/milk/bin"

Option 2: MILK installation as a Julia module

Install Julia from the official website.

Note that MILK was developed and tested using Julia version 1.11.3.

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Install MILK using Julia’s package manager:

In REPL:

using Pkg
Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/yachielab/milk.git")

Or, from the shell:

julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/yachielab/milk.git")'

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Optionally, users can export the source directory to PATH:

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:./milk"

Verify successful installation

Confirm successful installation with the following call:

milk -h