Cannot add Julia as a backend in Cantor

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Hi everyone,

I’ve installed Cantor, but it didn’t automatically detect Julia on my system, which is the language I want to use it for.

When I look online, the only answer I can find is to manually add Julia as a backend in the settings. But I cannot find how to do that. This is the settings page in Cantor, but there is no option to add an additional backend.

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Can someone tell me how to add Julia here? I installed the language with juliaup, so the binary is at .juliaup/bin/julia

Thanks for any help.

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If you don’t have a julia backend option it means cantor wasn’t compiled with support for it. You can’t fix that at run time without recompiling.

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Thanks.

I installed it from the openSUSE repository, so that’s how it must’ve been compiled there. I also tried the Flatpak and installed it in some other distros I have in distrobox, but none of them were any better, having about the same number of backends or even less.

I don’t have much experience compiling software, but I can try to compile it myself.