# Changing DEPOT\_PATH in IJulia
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-depot-path-in-ijulia/17920
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 23, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-depot-path-in-ijulia/17920 "2018-11-23T18:04:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-depot-path-in-ijulia/17920/1 "2018-11-23T18:04:21Z")
I’m deploying an in-house application as a Jupyter notebook. Thanks to environments, I can have a “stable” environment working for the app, while my “dev” environment contains the latest code changes. Precompilation is a [problem](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/27418), however. I was thinking of circumventing the issue by having a separate DEPOT\_PATH, but I’m having a hard time making that work with IJulia, because it loads `Compat` before I get the chance to modify the `DEPOT_PATH`, and then any package that depends on Compat refuses to precompile. I figured that I could maybe create a separate IJulia kernel, where I set the JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH to something else in the kernelspec?
```julia
{
"display_name": "Julia 1.0.2",
"argv": [
"/home/cst-jean/julia-1.0.2/bin/julia",
"-i",
"--startup-file=yes",
"--color=yes",
"/home/cst-jean/.julia/packages/IJulia/DL02A/src/kernel.jl",
"{connection_file}"
],
"language": "julia"
}
```
Does anyone know of an easy way to do that? Or another approach entirely?
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-depot-path-in-ijulia/17920/2 "2018-11-23T18:06:20Z")
>
might be useful.
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### Author:  [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/changing-depot-path-in-ijulia/17920/3 "2018-11-23T18:56:02Z")
```julia
"argv": [
"env",
"JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=/home/cst-jean/blahblah",
"/home/cst-jean/julia-1.0.2/bin/julia",
...
```
did the trick.