# Cannot install any Julia package on Atom

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 1, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724 "2019-12-01T20:59:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/1 "2019-12-01T20:59:32Z")

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I re-installed Atom and Julia 1.3 and cannot install any package. I get this error

```julia
ERROR: The following package names could not be resolved:
 * PACKAGENAME.jl (not found in project, manifest or registry)
Please specify by known `name=uuid`.

```

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/2 "2019-12-01T21:00:58Z")

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Can you include the code you executed to get this error and also the full error message?

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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/3 "2019-12-01T21:09:47Z")

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```julia
using Distributed

addprocs(7)
@everywhere Pkg.add("Distributions.jl")

```

and the error

```julia
ERROR: On worker 2:
The following package names could not be resolved:
 * Distributions.jl (not found in project, manifest or registry)
Please specify by known `name=uuid`.
pkgerror at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Types.jl:113
#ensure_resolved#101 at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Types.jl:936
#ensure_resolved at ./none:0 [inlined]
#add#25 at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:97
add at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:72
#add#24 at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:69 [inlined]
add at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:69 [inlined]
#add#21 at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:67 [inlined]
add at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:67 [inlined]
#add#20 at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:66
add at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:66
top-level scope at none:0
eval at ./boot.jl:330
#105 at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Distributed/src/process_messages.jl:290
run_work_thunk at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Distributed/src/process_messages.jl:79
run_work_thunk at /Users/sabae/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Distributed/src/process_messages.jl:88
#98 at ./task.jl:333

...and 7 more exception(s).

```

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/4 "2019-12-01T21:39:12Z")

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the way to do this is you install `Distributions` once normally, then

```julia
addprocs(7)
@everywhere using Distributions

```

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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/5 "2019-12-01T21:40:28Z")

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I had mistyped, the actual code I ran to install Distributions is posted above.

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/6 "2019-12-01T21:41:17Z")

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you don’t want to install it `@everywhere`, you install normally, say in REPL, `]add Distributions`

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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/7 "2019-12-01T21:42:18Z")

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I don’t think this is the problem. I tried without everywhere and still I get this problem.

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/8 "2019-12-01T21:42:37Z")

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what did you try?

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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/9 "2019-12-01T21:43:46Z")

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```julia
using Pkg
Pkg.add("Distributions.jl")

```

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**Author:** ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/10 "2019-12-01T21:44:01Z")

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ah, wait, you should have

```julia
Pkg.add("Distributions")

```

without the .jl

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**Author:** ![juliauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@juliauser](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliauser)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-any-julia-package-on-atom/31724/11 "2019-12-01T21:46:39Z")

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perfect, sorry for the stupid question. Thank you!