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When the Julia snap is installed on a x86_64 machine, only the 32-bit compiler is included.

Would be nice to have the latest LTS available as snap.

If snap isn't going to be supported in future, it might be better to remove it completely, so that people don't get a bad impression of out-dated Julia versions.

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The most recent LTS release is v1.0.5 as of September 9th.

please

The most recent version of Julia in the official Debian repo is 1.5.3 while the current LTS is 1.6.4. Given the fact that a lot of people will try to install Julia from the official repos first and how easy is to create a snap from the official binaries in contrast to building debs, it would be convenient to maintain a snap version and eventually drop the outdated package in Debian.

Some of previous problems:

1. Problem of getting the Julia 32 bit in a 64 bit machine - is just some small error in the snapcraft.yaml, julia-mrcinv seems to work.
2. Snap Store bureaucracy - There is a need for manual approval to get multiple channels (eg: stable, lts) and to publish the app using classic confinement (instead of the sandbox permissions), both can be a one time thing, allowing to automate the following releases.
3. Install multiple versions of Julia - This isn't needed for those wanting to use snap as replacement of apt but there is already an experimental feature for it.