# \[ANN\] jill.py -- a simple and stupid cross-platform Julia installer

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**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-jill-py-a-simple-and-stupid-cross-platform-julia-installer/34845 "2020-02-19T12:17:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnnyChen94](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnnychen94/32/29979_2.png) [@JohnnyChen94](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JohnnyChen94)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-jill-py-a-simple-and-stupid-cross-platform-julia-installer/34845/7 "2021-10-17T14:26:47Z")

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If you mean updating Julia’s minor version, say, `jill install 1.7.0-rc1`, then you probably would want to `cp -r ~/.julia/environments/v1.6 ~/.julia/environments/v1.7` (if you’re using macOS or Linux) so that the package information is still kept in the new version’s root environment `@v1.7`. Actually, `jill install 1.7.0-rc1 --update` also does this but I find manually copying the folder via `cp` is more convenient so I choose to not advertise this feature in the README.

Deleting Julia via `jill` is a missing feature: currently, you’ll have to manually remove the Julia installation folders and also the symlinks, see also the discussions in [https://github.com/johnnychen94/jill.py/issues/96](https://github.com/johnnychen94/jill.py/issues/96).

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