# Download and Install package in Julia

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You are probably better off downloading the tarball or zip from github and extracting it, as opposed to getting the individual files one by one. Run `Pkg.build` as suggested above.

The `.ji` files will be generated as necessary, don’t worry about them.

That said, with packages getting updated frequently, fixing your net connection to allow `Pkg.add` etc to work may be the path of least resistance. See

> [@Update problems behind a corporate proxy with user and pass](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-problems-behind-a-corporate-proxy-with-user-and-pass/2560/):
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> Hello, I know this question was asked a hundred times in the web, but I did’nt find any solution. So I ask again for my special situation: I istalled a fresh Julia 0.5.1 64-bit on my windows 7 computer. There is no program “git” or “git.exe” on the computer (which is part of several soutions) and it did not come with Julia. If I call e.g. Pkg.status() (or any other Pkg related command) then I get: INFO: Initializing package repository C:\Users\di29394\.julia\v0.5 INFO: Cloning METADATA from…

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