# Activating a separate environment

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activating-a-separate-environment/59515>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package, environment\
**Created:** [April 18, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activating-a-separate-environment/59515 "2021-04-18T04:48:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![HerAdri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/heradri/32/5816_2.png) [@HerAdri](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HerAdri)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activating-a-separate-environment/59515/1 "2021-04-18T04:48:14Z")

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how to activate a separate environment for julia 1.6.0 from julia 1.5.4?

```julia
(@v1.6) pkg> activate env1.6
  Activating new environment at `C:\Users\hermesr\env1.6\Project.toml`

(env1.6) pkg> add Plots
    Updating registry at `C:\Users\hermesr\.julia\registries\General`
    Updating git-repo `C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\General`
   Resolving package versions...
     Cloning [02c8fc9c-b97f-50b9-bbe4-9be30ff0a78a] XML2_jll from https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/XML2_jll.jl.git
ERROR: failed to clone from https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/XML2_jll.jl.git, error: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: The connection with the server was terminated abnormally
)

(env1.6) pkg>

```

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**Author:** ![HerAdri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/heradri/32/5816_2.png) [@HerAdri](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HerAdri)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activating-a-separate-environment/59515/2 "2021-04-18T06:02:32Z")

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```julia
              _
   _ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_) | (_) (_) |
   _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` | |
  | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.6.0 (2021-03-24)
 _/ |\ __'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/ |

(@v1.6) pkg> add C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\Plots.jl
     Cloning git-repo `C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\Plots.jl`
    Updating git-repo `C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\Plots.jl`
    Updating registry at `C:\Users\hermesr\.julia\registries\General`
    Updating git-repo `C:\Users\hermesr\Documents\GitHub\General`
   Resolving package versions...
     Cloning [23fbe1c1-3f47-55db-b15f-69d7ec21a316] Latexify from https://github.com/korsbo/Latexify.jl.git
ERROR: failed to clone from https://github.com/korsbo/Latexify.jl.git, error: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: The connection with the server was terminated abnormally
)

(@v1.6) pkg>

```

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/activating-a-separate-environment/59515/3 "2021-04-18T08:15:12Z")

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Julia 1.6 will run in a different environment than Julia 1.5.4 by default - that’s what the `(@v1.6)` in the Pkg prompt is telling you. If you start Julia 1.5.4, it will say `(@v1.5)` at the prompt.