# Allow Pkg.dir on JuliaBox

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**Created:** [March 18, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allow-pkg-dir-on-juliabox/9784 "2018-03-18T09:41:45Z")\
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> [@StefanKarpinski](#):
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> `Pkg.dir()` is also going away in Pkg3

Has there been any discussion about how to migrate existing Pkgs?

// running into this problem with getting [`WebIO`](https://github.com/JuliaGizmos/WebIO.jl/issues/128) to v0.7

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**edit:** similar discussion: [How to get Julia home in Julia 0.7?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-julia-home-in-julia-0-7/9953) (maybe that answers the question)

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