ERROR: could not find project file in package at https://github.com/

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Hello! I tried to install some packages on Julia 1.4.2 and I got errors of the following format:

ERROR: could not find project file in package at https://github.com/...

I was able to install these packages on Julia 1.3.1. Could you please provide some help? Thanks!

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It could be an older package that still uses REQUIRE instead of Project.toml. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1648

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Thank you! Yes the packages are suing REQUIRE. It seems that the only solution is Transitioning from REQUIRE to Project.toml? If the owners of the packages don’t add the Project.toml, I would have to clone all the repos and do it myself then. Is my understanding correct?

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If the repository is unmaintained, you can fork it and add Project.toml yourself. Then you can use it with ]add https://github.com/Ken_Lin/name_of_forked_repository.

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