# Artifacts don't download after instantiating

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/artifacts-dont-download-after-instantiating/72102
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, artifacts
**Created:** [November 26, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/artifacts-dont-download-after-instantiating/72102 "2021-11-26T10:41:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![yakir12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yakir12/32/297_2.png) [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/artifacts-dont-download-after-instantiating/72102/1 "2021-11-26T10:41:38Z")

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I don’t understand why an artifact specified in the `Artifacts.toml` file doesn’t become available after instantiating an environment:

```julia
shell> ls
Artifacts.toml Manifest.toml Project.toml

shell> cat Artifacts.toml
# a simple Artifacts.toml file
[socrates]
git-tree-sha1 = "43563e7631a7eafae1f9f8d9d332e3de44ad7239"

    [[socrates.download]]
    url = "https://github.com/staticfloat/small_bin/raw/master/socrates.tar.gz"
    sha256 = "e65d2f13f2085f2c279830e863292312a72930fee5ba3c792b14c33ce5c5cc58"

(name) pkg> instantiate # here I thought the artifact would get "installed"

julia> using Artifacts

julia> artifact"socrates"
ERROR: Artifact "socrates" was not installed correctly. Try `using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()` to re-install all missing resources.
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(s::String)
   @ Base ./error.jl:33
 [2] _artifact_str( __module__ ::Module, artifacts_toml::String, name::SubString{String}, path_tail::String, artifact_dict::Dict{String, Any}, hash::Base.SHA1, platform::Base.BinaryPlatforms.Platform, lazyartifacts::Any)
   @ Artifacts ~/julia/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Artifacts/src/Artifacts.jl:551
 [3] invokelatest(::Any, ::Any, ::Vararg{Any}; kwargs::Base.Pairs{Symbol, Union{}, Tuple{}, NamedTuple{(), Tuple{}}})
   @ Base ./essentials.jl:716
 [4] invokelatest(::Any, ::Any, ::Vararg{Any})
   @ Base ./essentials.jl:714
 [5] top-level scope
   @ ~/julia/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Artifacts/src/Artifacts.jl:680

```

Note, this is not used in a package, but in a project that is not a package.

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### Author: ![yakir12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yakir12/32/297_2.png) [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/artifacts-dont-download-after-instantiating/72102/2 "2021-11-26T13:04:38Z")

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Literally `using ArtifactUtils` solved this 😛