I am currently in the process of installing Julia in the ChromeOS shell. I have julia running OK, but I cannot seem to install some packages because the .julia directory is located in the noexec home folder. I would like to move .julia to a different location, but am having trouble finding informati…

A symlink might be easiest. Within Julia, I think it’s DEPOT_PATH.

export JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=“/usr/local/.julia” in my .bashrc did the trick, thanks!

For anyone wondering how to make this work on Windows, here is an example I used to move the .julia folder in the Julia installation folder. I simply created a new environment variable JULIA_DEPOT_PATH with the following three paths C:\Julia-1.3.1\.julia\;C:\Julia-1.3.1\local\share\julia\;C:\Julia-1…

Does this still work in VERSION=1.6? I’m on Windows and used: C:\Users\user>set JULIA_DEPOT_PATH="C:\.julia" C:\Users\user>echo %JULIA_DEPOT_PATH% "C:\.julia" After that I deleted my C:\Users\user\.julia folder and started julia. But this happend: (@v1.6) pkg> st Status `C:\Users\user\.…

For me it still works. I set the Depot path manually using the environment variables window, but this shouldn’t matter. I never tried however setting it directly to C:. Maybe start julia as admin?

[image] How to change .julia folder location General Usage Hey all, Usually the .julia folder location is in the home directory of the current user. I want to change that. But it for example on c:.julia. I read that therefore I have to change the global variable JULIA_DE…

I double checked using C: location: (@v1.6) pkg> st Status `C:\.julia\environments\v1.6\Project.toml` (empty project)

Sorry I got it to work. I just posted the solution thread above. Thx!

hi guys i am a newbie Julia i have created my own environment and named it “demo”, i want the downloaded packages to be in the demo folder, i have activated the demo environment, why when i use the command “add PyCall” the packages get installed put in folder C? I don’t want to use C folder for in…

the solution of this post answers your question and please don’t ask duplicated question in short interval

Change location of .julia

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