# Deps.jl fie is missing when installing GMT julia package
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** package, error, package-compiler, gmt
**Created:** [November 4, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803 "2023-11-04T22:32:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Chamika\_Kasun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chamika_Kasun)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/1 "2023-11-04T22:32:22Z")
I’m getting following error, when I tried to install the GMT package into global packages.
```julia
Failed to precompile GMT [5752ebe1-31b9-557e-87aa-f909b540aa54] to /Users/cbandara/.julia/compiled/v1.6/GMT/jl_rcWYt7.
ERROR: LoadError: SystemError: opening file “/Users/cbandara/.julia/packages/GMT/1kBBX/deps/deps.jl”: No such file or directory
```
My Julia version: 1.6
OS: Mac Ventura 13.6
Mac Chip: Apple M1 Pro
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### Author:  [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/2 "2023-11-04T23:05:32Z")
I’m not seeing how it would it mater for this but why don’t you use a more recent Julia version? The just released 1.10rc is so much faster in compiling and loading the pre-compiled cache files.
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### Author:  [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/3 "2023-11-04T23:07:24Z")
BTW, the GMT.jl `Project.toml` has `julia = "1.7"` as minimal version.
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### Author:  [@Chamika\_Kasun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chamika_Kasun)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/4 "2023-11-05T08:00:12Z")
Yeah, I know we have a requirement to build some functionality to a legacy API, unfortunately, that API functionality relies on the Julia 1.6 version.
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### Author:  [@Chamika\_Kasun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chamika_Kasun)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/5 "2023-11-05T08:00:45Z")
Oh, is there a anyway around this to install a compatible version for Julia 1.6 ?
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### Author:  [@gvdr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gvdr)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/6 "2023-11-05T09:46:20Z")
Try to see what version was the last one supporting Julia 1.6 (look at the commit history of the project.toml on GitHub) and install that version (by specifying it in the project.toml.of your environment).
e.g. [How to install a specific version of a package with Pkg.add(“…”)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-install-a-specific-version-of-a-package-with-pkg-add/29242)
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### Author:  [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/7 "2023-11-05T11:30:16Z")
You can try also to edit the GMT.jl Project.toml file and change the `julia = "1.7"` under the compat section to `julia = "1.6"` and see if it works.
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### Author:  [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/8 "2023-11-05T19:27:47Z")
The error you are seeing means that the build step didn’t run successfully. You could either try `] build GMT` or post the full log.
In either case when asking for help it’s often beneficial to post the version of the packages involved.
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### Author:  [@Chamika\_Kasun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chamika_Kasun)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/9 "2023-11-05T21:24:26Z")
I tried installing the compatible version for julia 1.6 ([JuliaHub](https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/General/GMT/0.44.8)), Still the same issue happens. Package version that I’m trying is 0.44.8
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### Author:  [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/10 "2023-11-05T21:44:26Z")
So what do you get when you do:
```julia
import Pkg; Pkg.build("GMT")
```
For me:
```julia
(@v1.6) pkg> activate --temp
Activating new environment at `/tmp/jl_z8FBKS/Project.toml`
(jl_z8FBKS) pkg> add GMT@0.44.8
Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General`
Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
Resolving package versions...
Installed VersionParsing ─ v1.3.0
Installed Conda ────────── v1.9.1
Installed GMT ──────────── v0.44.8
Updating `/tmp/jl_z8FBKS/Project.toml`
[5752ebe1] + GMT v0.44.8
Updating `/tmp/jl_z8FBKS/Manifest.toml`
[8f4d0f93] + Conda v1.9.1
[a8cc5b0e] + Crayons v4.1.1
[9a962f9c] + DataAPI v1.15.0
[e2d170a0] + DataValueInterfaces v1.0.0
[5752ebe1] + GMT v0.44.8
[82899510] + IteratorInterfaceExtensions v1.0.0
[682c06a0] + JSON v0.21.4
[b964fa9f] + LaTeXStrings v1.3.0
[bac558e1] + OrderedCollections v1.6.2
[69de0a69] + Parsers v2.7.2
[aea7be01] + PrecompileTools v1.2.0
[21216c6a] + Preferences v1.4.1
[08abe8d2] + PrettyTables v2.2.8
[189a3867] + Reexport v1.2.2
[66db9d55] + SnoopPrecompile v1.0.3
[892a3eda] + StringManipulation v0.3.4
[3783bdb8] + TableTraits v1.0.1
[bd369af6] + Tables v1.11.1
[81def892] + VersionParsing v1.3.0
[0dad84c5] + ArgTools
[56f22d72] + Artifacts
[2a0f44e3] + Base64
[ade2ca70] + Dates
[f43a241f] + Downloads
[b77e0a4c] + InteractiveUtils
[b27032c2] + LibCURL
[76f85450] + LibGit2
[8f399da3] + Libdl
[37e2e46d] + LinearAlgebra
[56ddb016] + Logging
[a63ad114] + Mmap
[44cfe95a] + Pkg
[de0858da] + Printf
[3fa0cd96] + REPL
[9a3f8284] + Random
[ea8e919c] + SHA
[9e88b42a] + Serialization
[6462fe0b] + Sockets
[2f01184e] + SparseArrays
[10745b16] + Statistics
[fa267f1f] + TOML
[a4e569a6] + Tar
[cf7118a7] + UUIDs
[4ec0a83e] + Unicode
[deac9b47] + LibCURL_jll
[29816b5a] + LibSSH2_jll
[c8ffd9c3] + MbedTLS_jll
[14a3606d] + MozillaCACerts_jll
[83775a58] + Zlib_jll
[8e850ede] + nghttp2_jll
[3f19e933] + p7zip_jll
Building Conda → `~/.julia/scratchspaces/44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f/8c86e48c0db1564a1d49548d3515ced5d604c408/build.log`
Building GMT ──→ `~/.julia/scratchspaces/44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f/5968385e86d9c119db96d05e41df420c245f73da/build.log`
```
The building GMT step takes quite a bit and looking at the log that seems to be a Conda issue…
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### Author:  [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/11 "2023-11-05T22:42:27Z")
Version 0.44 still used the Conda install, not the GMT\_jll artifacts as it does now. Why don’t you try what I suggested?
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### Author:  [@Chamika\_Kasun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chamika_Kasun)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/12 "2023-11-06T01:35:47Z")
That approach you suggested to edit the Julia version in the Project.toml right ? This would help us to work in local env if that works, but in the production we have dockerize the application under based image which has the julia 1.6, then how do we do that version update ?
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### Author:  [@Chamika\_Kasun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chamika_Kasun)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/13 "2023-11-06T01:37:01Z")
It loads the package, but failed to load when try to use it.
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### Author:  [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/14 "2023-11-06T02:26:54Z")
You seem to be still building the old 0.44 version (current one does not use Conda anymore). And you might have hit [Bit/Bool syntax in statplots.jl : "|" is not a unary operator · Issue #1223 · GenericMappingTools/GMT.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/GMT.jl/issues/1223) but can’t be sure because you only show a small bit of the stack trace. Don’t use screen-shots, just copy the text message.
Anyway, try the master version. I’ve lowered the compat requirement to 1.6 and fixed the issue #1223 but there is at least one place where the `stack` function is used and that one requires Julia1.9. Don’t know if that bothers the `using` if that function is not called.
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### Author:  [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/15 "2023-11-06T10:27:54Z")
You are out of luck for compiling current GMT.jl version ([build error](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/GMT.jl/actions/runs/6765593635/job/18385461565?pr=1305))
But if you want to give it a try, you can make GMT.jl work with a local GMT (the C program) build by following this recipe.
```julia
# The file deps/deps.jl is created by compile from the deps/build.jl
# On Windows we use a system wide GMT if it is found from path or install it from a GMT installer. It is a MSVC binary.
# On Unix the default is to use the GMT_jll artifact. However this can be changed to use a system wide GMT installation.
# To swap to a system wide GMT installation, do (in REPL):
# 1- ENV["SYSTEMWIDE_GMT"] = 1;
# 2- import Pkg; Pkg.build("GMT")
# 3- restart Julia
#
# Note the above will work up until some other reason triggers a Julia recompile, where the JLL artifacts
# will be used again. To make the ENV["SYSTEMWIDE_GMT"] = 1 solution permanent, declare a "SYSTEMWIDE_GMT"
# environment variable permanently in your .bashrc (or whatever).
```
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### Author:  [@Chamika\_Kasun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chamika_Kasun)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/16 "2023-11-07T11:46:28Z")
Hmmmm. My requirement is to use this logic in a production server. But would it work on a Ubuntu machine ?
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### Author:  [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/17 "2023-11-07T14:14:56Z")
Julia 1.6 support for Apple M1 is not great. At that version I might recommend the the Intel binaries over the native ARM binaries. We only upgraded Apple M1 to [Tier 1 support status with Julia 1.9](https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/#apple_silicon_achieves_tier_1_status). An Ubuntu Linux machine wo I ld probably have better support at Julia 1.6.
What is the Julia 1.6 API that is keeping you at that version?
Also, have you been using a fresh Julia environment for this install?
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### Author:  [@Chamika\_Kasun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chamika_Kasun)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/deps-jl-fie-is-missing-when-installing-gmt-julia-package/105803/18 "2023-11-08T00:36:37Z")
@mkitti , Yes I tried with a fresh Julia env too. It’s an internal API that we have built, there are lots of legacy stuff we have built around that Julia 1.6 version.