Can't install DifferentialEquations

Dozeze · July 9, 2026, 2:39pm

Hello!

I am new to Julia and want to learn coding with SciML.Followed the tutorial but got the following error:

julia> Pkg.add("DifferentialEquations")
    Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General.toml`
   Resolving package versions...
   Installed PrecompileTools ─ v1.2.1
    Updating `~/projects/my-julia-project/Project.toml`
  [0c46a032] + DifferentialEquations v8.0.2
    Updating `~/projects/my-julia-project/Manifest.toml`
  [47edcb42] + ADTypes v1.22.1
  [14f7f29c] + AMD v0.5.3
  [7d9f7c33] + Accessors v0.1.45
  [79e6a3ab] + Adapt v4.7.0
  [4fba245c] + ArrayInterface v7.27.0
  [b2a6c25c] + BinaryHeaps v1.0.1
  [70df07ce] + BracketingNonlinearSolve v1.12.2
  [38540f10] + CommonSolve v0.2.9
  [bbf7d656] + CommonSubexpressions v0.3.1
  [34da2185] + Compat v4.18.1
  [a33af91c] + CompositionsBase v0.1.2
  [2569d6c7] + ConcreteStructs v0.2.5
  [187b0558] + ConstructionBase v1.6.0
  [2b5f629d] + DiffEqBase v7.6.0
  [163ba53b] + DiffResults v1.1.0
  [b552c78f] + DiffRules v1.16.0
  [0c46a032] + DifferentialEquations v8.0.2
  [a0c0ee7d] + DifferentiationInterface v0.7.19
  [ffbed154] + DocStringExtensions v0.9.5
  [4e289a0a] + EnumX v1.0.7
  [f151be2c] + EnzymeCore v0.8.21
  [e2ba6199] + ExprTools v0.1.10
  [7034ab61] + FastBroadcast v1.3.3
  [9aa1b823] + FastClosures v0.3.2
  [a4df4552] + FastPower v1.3.3
  [6a86dc24] + FiniteDiff v2.31.1
  [f6369f11] + ForwardDiff v1.4.1
  [069b7b12] + FunctionWrappers v1.1.3
  [77dc65aa] + FunctionWrappersWrappers v1.10.0
  [46192b85] + GPUArraysCore v0.2.0
  [3587e190] + InverseFunctions v0.1.17
  [92d709cd] + IrrationalConstants v0.2.6
  [82899510] + IteratorInterfaceExtensions v1.0.0
  [692b3bcd] + JLLWrappers v1.8.0
  [ba0b0d4f] + Krylov v0.10.8
  [87fe0de2] + LineSearch v0.1.10
  [7ed4a6bd] + LinearSolve v4.2.0
  [2ab3a3ac] + LogExpFunctions v1.0.1
  [e6f89c97] + LoggingExtras v1.2.0
  [1914dd2f] + MacroTools v0.5.16
  [bb5d69b7] + MaybeInplace v0.1.5
  [46d2c3a1] + MuladdMacro v0.2.6
  [77ba4419] + NaNMath v1.1.4
  [8913a72c] + NonlinearSolve v4.20.2
  [be0214bd] + NonlinearSolveBase v2.33.0
  [5959db7a] + NonlinearSolveFirstOrder v2.1.3
  [9a2c21bd] + NonlinearSolveQuasiNewton v1.13.3
  [26075421] + NonlinearSolveSpectralMethods v1.7.2
  [1dea7af3] + OrdinaryDiffEq v7.1.1
  [6ad6398a] + OrdinaryDiffEqBDF v2.2.3
  [bbf590c4] + OrdinaryDiffEqCore v4.6.0
  [50262376] + OrdinaryDiffEqDefault v2.2.2
  [4302a76b] + OrdinaryDiffEqDifferentiation v3.2.3
  [127b3ac7] + OrdinaryDiffEqNonlinearSolve v2.0.2
  [43230ef6] + OrdinaryDiffEqRosenbrock v2.3.2
  [b4bd8bb3] + OrdinaryDiffEqRosenbrockTableaus v2.1.2
  [2d112036] + OrdinaryDiffEqSDIRK v2.7.1
  [b1df2697] + OrdinaryDiffEqTsit5 v2.0.2
  [79d7bb75] + OrdinaryDiffEqVerner v2.1.1
  [d236fae5] + PreallocationTools v1.2.1
⌅ [aea7be01] + PrecompileTools v1.2.1
  [21216c6a] + Preferences v1.5.2
  [0c0d3e7f] + PureKLU v1.1.0
  [3cdcf5f2] + RecipesBase v1.3.4
  [731186ca] + RecursiveArrayTools v4.3.2
  [189a3867] + Reexport v1.2.2
  [7e49a35a] + RuntimeGeneratedFunctions v0.5.21
  [0bca4576] + SciMLBase v3.33.0
  [19f34311] + SciMLJacobianOperators v0.1.14
  [a6db7da4] + SciMLLogging v2.0.1
  [c0aeaf25] + SciMLOperators v1.24.0
  [431bcebd] + SciMLPublic v1.2.1
  [53ae85a6] + SciMLStructures v1.10.1
  [efcf1570] + Setfield v1.1.2
  [727e6d20] + SimpleNonlinearSolve v2.12.1
  [a57abbd0] + SparseColumnPivotedQR v2.1.2
  [0a514795] + SparseMatrixColorings v0.4.27
  [276daf66] + SpecialFunctions v2.8.0
  [1e83bf80] + StaticArraysCore v1.4.4
  [10745b16] + Statistics v1.11.1
  [2efcf032] + SymbolicIndexingInterface v0.3.49
  [a759f4b9] + TimerOutputs v0.5.29
  [781d530d] + TruncatedStacktraces v1.4.0
  [1d5cc7b8] + IntelOpenMP_jll v2025.2.0+0
  [856f044c] + MKL_jll v2025.2.0+0
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  [1317d2d5] + oneTBB_jll v2022.3.0+0
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  [b77e0a4c] + InteractiveUtils v1.11.0
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  [ea8e919c] + SHA v0.7.0
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  [2f01184e] + SparseArrays v1.11.0
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  [e66e0078] + CompilerSupportLibraries_jll v1.1.1+0
  [deac9b47] + LibCURL_jll v8.6.0+0
  [e37daf67] + LibGit2_jll v1.7.2+0
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  [05823500] + OpenLibm_jll v0.8.5+0
  [bea87d4a] + SuiteSparse_jll v7.7.0+0
  [83775a58] + Zlib_jll v1.2.13+1
  [8e850b90] + libblastrampoline_jll v5.11.0+0
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  [3f19e933] + p7zip_jll v17.4.0+2
        Info Packages marked with ⌅ have new versions available but compatibility constraints restrict them from upgrading. To see why use `status --outdated -m`
Precompiling project...
  ✗ OrdinaryDiffEqRosenbrock
  ✗ OrdinaryDiffEqDefault
  ✗ OrdinaryDiffEq
  ✗ DifferentialEquations
  131 dependencies successfully precompiled in 136 seconds. 32 already precompiled.
  1 dependency had output during precompilation:
┌ SciMLBase
│  ┌ Warning: Replacing docs for `SciMLBase.AlgorithmInterpretation :: Union{}` in module `SciMLBase.AlgorithmInterpretation`
│  └ @ Base.Docs docs/Docs.jl:243
└
  4 dependencies errored.
  For a report of the errors see `julia> err`. To retry use `pkg> precompile`

I tried installing this package with Julia 1.11.9 and 1.20.7 (latest), and got the same error. I wrote err to see what went wrong, and I got this:

PkgPrecompileError: The following 1 direct dependency failed to precompile:

DifferentialEquations

Failed to precompile DifferentialEquations [0c46a032-eb83-5123-abaf-570d42b7fbaa] to "/home/jonat/.julia/compiled/v1.11/DifferentialEquations/jl_hkKDTn".
WARNING: could not import OrdinaryDiffEqDifferentiation.TimeDerivativeWrapper into OrdinaryDiffEqRosenbrock
WARNING: could not import OrdinaryDiffEqDifferentiation.TimeGradientWrapper into OrdinaryDiffEqRosenbrock
ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: `TimeGradientWrapper` not defined in `OrdinaryDiffEqRosenbrock`

Not sure what else to do. Does anyone else have this problem, and did anyone resolve this?

Thanks a lot.

fritut08 · July 9, 2026, 2:44pm

I have the same problem and had just created a post. (Unfortunately, this forum wont let me include a link to it here.)

Dozeze · July 9, 2026, 2:45pm

(post deleted by author)

kellertuer · July 9, 2026, 2:48pm

I do not see much in this form, but maybe if you put the code in 3 backticks

```
Like
This
```

Then line breaks are kept, the code above renders as

Like
This

Then one could read the error messages a bit better.

fritut08 · July 9, 2026, 2:50pm

I have the same problem and get this output:

  ✗ OrdinaryDiffEqRosenbrock
  ✗ OrdinaryDiffEqDefault
  ✗ OrdinaryDiffEq
Precompiling packages finished.
  131 dependencies successfully precompiled in 338 seconds. 34 already precompiled.
  3 dependencies had output during precompilation:
┌ LinearSolve
│   Downloading artifact: MKL
└
┌ SciMLBase
│  ┌ Warning: Replacing docs for `SciMLBase.AlgorithmInterpretation :: Union{}` in module `SciMLBase.AlgorithmInterpretation`
│  └ @ Base.Docs docs\Docs.jl:249
└
┌ MKL_jll
│   Downloading artifact: IntelOpenMP
│   Downloading artifact: oneTBB
└
  3 dependencies errored.
  For a report of the errors see `julia> err`. To retry use `pkg> precompile`

The err() function outputs:

ERROR: MethodError: objects of type Base.Precompilation.PkgPrecompileError are not callable
The object of type `Base.Precompilation.PkgPrecompileError` exists, but no method is defined for this combination of argument types when trying to treat it as a callable object.
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL[2]:1

Steps to reproduce:

Delete Julia completely to make sure it is not a problem with my installation.
Delete the .julia folder.
Install Julia via winget install --name Julia --id 9NJNWW8PVKMN -e -s msstore(I am using Windows.)
Open Julia in terminal via julia command.
]add OrdinaryDiffEq

kellertuer · July 9, 2026, 2:52pm

Please do not copy the content here again from the topic you already have

and no, both your error messages look very different to me.

Dozeze · July 9, 2026, 2:52pm

Fixed

fritut08 · July 9, 2026, 3:20pm

I just tried again and now it works. It seems to have been just a temporary hickup.

Dozeze · July 9, 2026, 3:28pm

Not for me, issue still exists

fritut08 · July 9, 2026, 3:40pm

Did you try deleting your .julia folder and then re-adding the package?

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