# \[ANN\] DiffEq and friends now available on JuliaBox

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-diffeq-and-friends-now-available-on-juliabox/8308>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** juliabox, diffeq\
**Created:** [January 12, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-diffeq-and-friends-now-available-on-juliabox/8308 "2018-01-12T08:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![avik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/avik/32/17_2.png) [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-diffeq-and-friends-now-available-on-juliabox/8308/1 "2018-01-12T08:30:15Z")

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A quick note to say that the DifferentialEquation packages are now installed by default on Juliabox. A huge shout out to Chris and his collaborators, for making Julia by far the best language to work with differential equations of all kinds.

As you know, this is a large set of packages, with many dependencies. If you have installed DiffEq packages manually, or even otherwise if you find instabilities with _dead kernel_ messages etc, please re-install your packages. Go to the package management UI, add or delete packages if appropriate, and click _Start_.

As always, please let us know on `juliabox@juliacomputing.com` if you have any questions, kudos or brickbats.

Regards

Avik (on behalf of the Juliabox team)

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-diffeq-and-friends-now-available-on-juliabox/8308/2 "2018-01-12T13:06:44Z")

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> [@avik](#):
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> [ANN] DiffEq and friends
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> As you know, this is a large set of packages, with many dependencies.

I may start calling them “friends” instead of “dependencies”. Sounds much more inviting.

Nice work!

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**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-diffeq-and-friends-now-available-on-juliabox/8308/3 "2018-01-12T18:47:36Z")

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Hi @avik thanks this seems like a great choice.

May I report unexpected behavior here? After my last `build` on JuliaBox, these are the reported versions:

```julia
Julia Version 0.6.0
Commit 9036443 (2017-06-19 13:05 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)
  LAPACK: libopenblas64_
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.9.1 (ORCJIT, haswell)

62 required packages:
 - Atom 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - AutoGrad 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - AutoHashEquals 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - BusinessDays 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - CSV 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - Calculus 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - Clustering 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - Conda 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - DSP 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - DataFrames 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - DataStreams 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - DataStructures 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - DecisionTree 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - DifferentialEquations 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - DistributedArrays 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)
 - Distributions 0.0.0- non-repo (unregistered)

```

And goes on like this. JuliaBox notebook seems to work normally never the less.

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**Author:** ![avik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/avik/32/17_2.png) [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-diffeq-and-friends-now-available-on-juliabox/8308/4 "2018-01-13T15:48:21Z")

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Yeah, we know that report is incorrect, working on fixing it.

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**Author:** ![avik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/avik/32/17_2.png) [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-diffeq-and-friends-now-available-on-juliabox/8308/5 "2018-01-15T02:48:07Z")

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And it should be fixed now.

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**Author:** ![avik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/avik/32/17_2.png) [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-diffeq-and-friends-now-available-on-juliabox/8308/6 "2018-01-31T15:51:40Z")

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A PSA that Juliabox has been upgraded to version 4.0.0 of DifferentialEquations. This is a major upgrade to the DiffEq family of packages, since it contains a series of backward incompatible changes. Please update your code if you’ve used DiffEq on JuliaBox.

As an aside, Dolo.jl is now available on Juliabox.

Once again, if you see any kernel crashes, that means your custom installed packages are now incompatible with the pre-installed packages, and you need to remove or re-install your custom packages. There is now a big `Reset` button in the package builder UI that makes it easy to remove any custom packages, and get your instance back to a clean, pre-installed setup.

Regards

Avik