# Atom compatibility problem when installing julia packages

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/atom-compatibility-problem-when-installing-julia-packages/22198
**Category:** Juno
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/atom-compatibility-problem-when-installing-julia-packages/22198 "2019-03-22T13:47:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![davidzentlermunro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidzentlermunro/32/5967_2.png) [@davidzentlermunro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidzentlermunro)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/atom-compatibility-problem-when-installing-julia-packages/22198/1 "2019-03-22T13:47:01Z")

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I’m trying to install a package in julia and get the following error message (this has happened with a couple of packages), which mentions a compatibility issue with Atom. Any ideas?

```julia
(v1.1) pkg> add KernelDensity.jl
  Updating registry at `C:\Users\uctpdtz\.julia\registries\General`
  Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
 Resolving package versions...
ERROR: Unsatisfiable requirements detected for package DebuggerFramework [67417a49]:
 DebuggerFramework [67417a49] log:
 ├─possible versions are: 0.1.0-0.1.2 or uninstalled
 ├─restricted by compatibility requirements with Atom [c52e3926] to versions: 0.1.0-0.1.2
 │ └─Atom [c52e3926] log:
 │ ├─possible versions are: [0.1.0-0.1.1, 0.2.0-0.2.1, 0.3.0, 0.4.0-0.4.6, 0.5.0-0.5.10, 0.6.0-0.6.17, 0.7.0-0.7.15, 0.8.0-0.8.2] or uninstalled
 │ └─restricted to versions 0.7.14 by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions 0.7.14
 └─restricted by julia compatibility requirements to versions: uninstalled — no versions left
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### Author: ![aalexandersson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aalexandersson/32/2927_2.png) [@aalexandersson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aalexandersson)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/atom-compatibility-problem-when-installing-julia-packages/22198/2 "2019-03-22T19:05:30Z")

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Try

`rm -m DebuggerFramework`

(in the Pkg REPL) as suggested [here](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1118). I had the same problem and it worked for me.

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### Author: ![davidzentlermunro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidzentlermunro/32/5967_2.png) [@davidzentlermunro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidzentlermunro)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/atom-compatibility-problem-when-installing-julia-packages/22198/3 "2019-03-26T10:04:14Z")

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Thanks, that worked.

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### Author: ![davidzentlermunro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidzentlermunro/32/5967_2.png) [@davidzentlermunro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidzentlermunro)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/atom-compatibility-problem-when-installing-julia-packages/22198/4 "2019-03-29T12:40:57Z")

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Update: it worked but then when I relaunched atom it now crashed because, I think, I had deleted Debugger. I then reinstalled julia and juno and all packages worked fine.

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### Author: ![NelsonIMA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nelsonima/32/7772_2.png) [@NelsonIMA](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NelsonIMA)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/atom-compatibility-problem-when-installing-julia-packages/22198/5 "2019-04-03T01:45:25Z")

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> [@davidzentlermunro](#):
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> Update

Thanks aalexandersson! I had the same problem and this solved it.  
How do you find this?

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### Author: ![olivierva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/olivierva/32/8016_2.png) [@olivierva](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/olivierva)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/atom-compatibility-problem-when-installing-julia-packages/22198/6 "2019-04-17T12:24:09Z")

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Had the same error `rm -m DebuggerFramework` didn’t work for me. But after I upgraded Julia from 1.01 to 1.1 everything started working fine.
