# Broken juliaup installation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-juliaup-installation/137567>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** juliaup\
**Created:** [June 11, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-juliaup-installation/137567 "2026-06-11T13:47:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![krcools](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/krcools/32/10212_2.png) [@krcools](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/krcools)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-juliaup-installation/137567/1 "2026-06-11T13:47:02Z")

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Julia on our linux server stopped working. On some snooping around I found this weird path in the juliaup managed section of `.profile`:

```julia-auto
cat .profile
[[-r ~/.bash_profile]] && . ~/.bash_profile

# >>> juliaup initialize >>>

# !! Contents within this block are managed by juliaup !!

case ":$PATH:" in
    *:/home/krcools/.julia/juliaup/.juliaup-backup-1YtvrL/old:*)
        ;;

    *)
        export PATH=/home/krcools/.julia/juliaup/.juliaup-backup-1YtvrL/old${PATH:+:${PATH}}
        ;;
esac

```

Can anyone provide some insight in how and when this path is changed to a backup location and how to recover from this?

Probably unrelated to this but I first noticed when playing around with `code tunnel`.

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**Author:** ![tamasgal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamasgal/32/27946_2.png) [@tamasgal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tamasgal)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/broken-juliaup-installation/137567/2 "2026-06-12T10:59:51Z")

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There were a couple of problems with `juliaup` in the past days. I’d recommend deleting that entry and also `~/.juliaup` and simply reinstall it.

It started somewhere here [Out of sudden: "command not found: julia" · Issue #1513 · JuliaLang/juliaup · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup/issues/1513) and since then I helped students and colleagues fix downstream issues like partially written “juliaup initialize” blocks (seems like you are also affected?)