# Do really multiple versions of Julia need multiple JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/do-really-multiple-versions-of-julia-need-multiple-julia-depot-path/70319
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [October 25, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/do-really-multiple-versions-of-julia-need-multiple-julia-depot-path/70319 "2021-10-25T07:21:31Z")
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### Author:  [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/do-really-multiple-versions-of-julia-need-multiple-julia-depot-path/70319/1 "2021-10-25T07:21:31Z")
Hello, on [SO](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69685925/can-i-create-a-virtual-environment-of-julia-1-4-2-with-conda-and-how/69687268) there is a conversation about multiple versions of Julia and the need to have a separate JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH environmental variable for each of them.
The fact is that I have been using Julia for several years now on Linux by just symlinking the julia executable e.g. `~/bin/julia1.4 -> ~/lib/julia-1.4.2/bin/julia`, `~/bin/julia1.6 -> ~/lib/julia-1.6.3/bin/julia`, `~/bin/julia -> ~/bin/julia1.6` and I have used multiple versions of Julia sometimes also at the same time on different terminal windows without any problem.
So, is it really that I has been so “lucky” all this time or multiple Julia versions can coexist on a system without changing the environmental variables ? Maybe is it only for Linux ? Maybe there would be troubles for Conda (I use the python system installation) ?
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### Author:  [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/do-really-multiple-versions-of-julia-need-multiple-julia-depot-path/70319/2 "2021-10-25T07:24:42Z")
Several years of several Julia Version on Windows and I never had to mess around with any of the Julia environment variables. I would say, “no”, if no special reason, let JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH alone. I don’t think, there is a difference between Windows and Linux.
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/do-really-multiple-versions-of-julia-need-multiple-julia-depot-path/70319/3 "2021-10-25T07:33:34Z")
No, there is no need for that.