# Cannot add Atom package to Julia
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [June 27, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501 "2017-06-27T18:34:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Vadim\_Krasnobelmov](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Vadim_Krasnobelmov)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/1 "2017-06-27T18:34:44Z")
When I try Pkg.add(“Atom”) in Julia’s terminal METHADATA.jl clone is starting, but this operation is failed - connection to server not establish. While I can download this repo from GitHub via git command line or by TortoiseGIt (yes, I setup proxy tunneling, because I’m use corporative proxy), but Julia still can not do it. Any ways to installing packages? May be I can offline?
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### Author:  [@kslimes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kslimes)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/2 "2017-06-27T19:36:40Z")
Hello Vadim,
Just to clarify, is the problem that you cannot clone `METADATA.jl` (during `Pkg.init()`, presumably)?
If you run `Pkg.init()` by itself, what happens?
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### Author:  [@Vadim\_Krasnobelmov](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Vadim_Krasnobelmov)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/3 "2017-06-27T20:03:45Z")
I try Pkg.init() and its also falls too. I’m no longer in the workplace at this moment, so I can not demonstrate the error log. Just tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@kslimes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kslimes)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/4 "2017-06-27T20:26:15Z")
So the problem is not with Atom 🙂 . I suspect Julia’s not picking up your git config properly (and therefore not handling the proxy stuff you mentioned). Are your proxy settings part of your global Git config?
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/5 "2017-06-27T21:26:27Z")
Please include full error messages in order to diagnose the problem.
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### Author:  [@Vadim\_Krasnobelmov](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Vadim_Krasnobelmov)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2017, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/6 "2017-06-28T08:46:20Z")
Yes. I can clone git repo, for example througth tortoiseGIT (I set proxy settings in .gitconfig file) and I can download and install packages for Atom (also with proxy tunelling settings in config file). But Julia cannot do this.
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### Author:  [@Vadim\_Krasnobelmov](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Vadim_Krasnobelmov)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/7 "2017-06-28T09:07:22Z")
For Init():
> julia\> Pkg.init()
> INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users.….julia\v0.6
> INFO: Cloning METADATA from [GitHub - JuliaLang/METADATA.jl: Metadata for registered Julia packages up to Julia v0.6. No longer maintained. Please see https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General instead.](https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl)
> ERROR: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: A connection with
> the server could not be established
> )
> Stacktrace:
> [1] macro expansion at .\libgit2\error.jl:99 [inlined]
> [2] clone(::String, ::String, ::Base.LibGit2.CloneOptions) at .\libgit2\reposit
> ory.jl:276
> [3] #clone#100(::String, ::Bool, ::Ptr{Void}, ::Nullable{Base.LibGit2.AbstractC
> redentials}, ::Function, ::String, ::String) at .\libgit2\libgit2.jl:562
> [4] (::Base.LibGit2.#kw##clone)(::Array{Any,1}, ::Base.LibGit2.#clone, ::String
> , ::String) at .\:0
> [5] (::Base.Pkg.Dir.##8#10{String,String})() at .\pkg\dir.jl:55
> [6] cd(::Base.Pkg.Dir.##8#10{String,String}, ::String) at .\file.jl:59
> [7] init(::String, ::String) at .\pkg\dir.jl:53
> [8] init() at .\pkg\pkg.jl:85
For Update():
> julia\> Pkg.update()
> INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users.….julia\v0.6
> INFO: Cloning METADATA from [GitHub - JuliaLang/METADATA.jl: Metadata for registered Julia packages up to Julia v0.6. No longer maintained. Please see https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General instead.](https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl)
> ERROR: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: A connection with
> the server could not be established
> )
> Stacktrace:
> [1] macro expansion at .\libgit2\error.jl:99 [inlined]
> [2] clone(::String, ::String, ::Base.LibGit2.CloneOptions) at .\libgit2\reposit
> ory.jl:276
> [3] #clone#100(::String, ::Bool, ::Ptr{Void}, ::Nullable{Base.LibGit2.AbstractC
> redentials}, ::Function, ::String, ::String) at .\libgit2\libgit2.jl:562
> [4] (::Base.LibGit2.#kw##clone)(::Array{Any,1}, ::Base.LibGit2.#clone, ::String
> , ::String) at .\:0
> [5] (::Base.Pkg.Dir.##8#10{String,String})() at .\pkg\dir.jl:55
> [6] cd(::Base.Pkg.Dir.##8#10{String,String}, ::String) at .\file.jl:59
> [7] init(::String, ::String) at .\pkg\dir.jl:53
> [8] #cd#1(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Function, ::String, ::Vararg{Any,N} whe
> re N) at .\pkg\dir.jl:28
> [9] update() at .\pkg\pkg.jl:228
For Add()
> julia\> Pkg.add(“Atom”)
> INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users.….julia\v0.6
> INFO: Cloning METADATA from [GitHub - JuliaLang/METADATA.jl: Metadata for registered Julia packages up to Julia v0.6. No longer maintained. Please see https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General instead.](https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl)
> ERROR: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: A connection with
> the server could not be established
> )
> Stacktrace:
> [1] macro expansion at .\libgit2\error.jl:99 [inlined]
> [2] clone(::String, ::String, ::Base.LibGit2.CloneOptions) at .\libgit2\reposit
> ory.jl:276
> [3] #clone#100(::String, ::Bool, ::Ptr{Void}, ::Nullable{Base.LibGit2.AbstractC
> redentials}, ::Function, ::String, ::String) at .\libgit2\libgit2.jl:562
> [4] (::Base.LibGit2.#kw##clone)(::Array{Any,1}, ::Base.LibGit2.#clone, ::String
> , ::String) at .\:0
> [5] (::Base.Pkg.Dir.##8#10{String,String})() at .\pkg\dir.jl:55
> [6] cd(::Base.Pkg.Dir.##8#10{String,String}, ::String) at .\file.jl:59
> [7] init(::String, ::String) at .\pkg\dir.jl:53
> [8] #cd#1(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Function, ::String, ::Vararg{Any,N} whe
> re N) at .\pkg\dir.jl:28
> [9] add(::String) at .\pkg\pkg.jl:117
I’m use foolow settings for .gitconfig:
> [http]
> sslVerify = false
> proxy = [http://username:pasword@proxy.company.com:8080](http://username:pasword@proxy.company.com:8080)
> [https]
> proxy = [http://username:pasword@proxy.company.com:8080](http://username:pasword@proxy.company.com:8080)
> [url “[https://github.com/](https://github.com/)”]
> insteadOf = git://github.com/
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### Author:  [@kslimes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kslimes)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/8 "2017-06-28T15:05:05Z")
Thanks so much for posting the detailed logs. This must be super frustrating, so thanks as well for your patience.
This `.gitconfig` is your global one, right? (Or is it in the Julia `.git` directory?) Could you try something like
```julia-repl
julia> LibGit2.GitConfig(path_to_the_config)
julia> Pkg.init()
```
And see if that helps? @omus might be more use than I am, here.
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### Author:  [@tk3369](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tk3369)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-add-atom-package-to-julia/4501/9 "2018-04-18T23:48:33Z")
I’m facing the same issue here with Windows 7. On a fresh install of Julia 0.6.2, I tried to add the first package:
```julia
Main> Pkg.add("Plots")
INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users\tkwong\.julia\v0.6
INFO: Cloning METADATA from https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
ERROR: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: A connection with the server could not be established
)
Stacktrace:
[1] macro expansion at .\libgit2\error.jl:99 [inlined]
[2] clone(::String, ::String, ::Base.LibGit2.CloneOptions) at .\libgit2\repository.jl:276
[3] #clone#100(::String, ::Bool, ::Ptr{Void}, ::Nullable{Base.LibGit2.AbstractCredentials}, ::Function, ::String, ::String) at .\libgit2\libgit2.jl:562
[4] (::Base.LibGit2.#kw##clone)(::Array{Any,1}, ::Base.LibGit2.#clone, ::String, ::String) at .\:0
[5] (::Base.Pkg.Dir.##8#10{String,String})() at .\pkg\dir.jl:55
[6] cd(::Base.Pkg.Dir.##8#10{String,String}, ::String) at .\file.jl:59
[7] init(::String, ::String) at .\pkg\dir.jl:53
[8] #cd#1(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Function, ::String, ::Vararg{String,N} where N) at .\pkg\dir.jl:28
[9] add(::String) at .\pkg\pkg.jl:117
[10] eval(::Module, ::Any) at .\boot.jl:235
```
Interestingly, if I clone the repo from command prompt, it works just fine:
```julia
C:\Users\tkwong\.julia\v0.6>git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl.git METADATA
Cloning into 'METADATA'...
remote: Counting objects: 131740, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39/39), done.
remote: Total 131740 (delta 14), reused 55 (delta 13), pack-reused 131681
Receiving objects: 100% (131740/131740), 23.02 MiB | 7.21 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (27909/27909), done.
Checking out files: 100% (31833/31833), done.
```
I was going to blame the firewall but since it works in command prompt I’m quite confused at the moment… What could be the problem?