# Cannot install IJulia 0.6.1 on Windows 8.1, blocked at "downloading miniconda installer"

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**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-ijulia-0-6-1-on-windows-8-1-blocked-at-downloading-miniconda-installer/7747 "2017-12-13T21:37:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![viiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@viiv](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/viiv)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-install-ijulia-0-6-1-on-windows-8-1-blocked-at-downloading-miniconda-installer/7747/1 "2017-12-13T21:37:52Z")

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Hello,

I’m new to Julia so hopefully this is an appropriate place to ask this question.

I’m trying to install IJulia following the recommended way: `Pkg.add("IJulia")`.  
It works until getting stuck on `downloading miniconda installer ...`  
I waited 15 mins and nothing happened, no CPU activity anymore etc.  
So I shut the Julia window down.

The thing is I already have Anaconda installed, since I used Python a bit with Spyder already. Never ran Jupyter though (this may have some importance later).  
So I suspect there could be a problem with my Anaconda (not sure about the link between Anaconda and Miniconda but there must be one).  
I Googled and found a few _similar_ isssues on their Github but not the same exact one.  
This mostly involves setting the Jupyter path in Windows, and trying to install IJulia the other recommended way.

So I tried one of these ways that seemed like it could work since it solved other _similar_ problems:

> ENV[“JUPYTER”]= “C:\\Users\\myusername\\Anaconda3\\Scripts”  
> Pkg.build(“IJulia”)

This path is where my `jupyter.exe` is located (even though when I typed `where jupyter` in Windows, it doesn’t find it btw, nor `where python` if that matters…).

But in the end, this gives the _exact_ same problem.

I’m really lost and not sure what to do…  
I’ll take any advice because there’s this IJulia package I really want to try, so thanks in advance! 🙂