# ERROR: Unable to automatically install 'libsodium' from '/Users/lshi/.julia/packages/libsodium\_jll/gfVNr/Artifacts.toml'

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [April 18, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548 "2021-04-18T15:35:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yecyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/22d042/32.png) [@yecyn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yecyn)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548/1 "2021-04-18T15:35:33Z")

</div>

Hello all,

I just installed Julia, and was trying to install packages. However I run into the following error:

```julia
import Pkg; Pkg.add("StatsBase")

Resolving package versions...
Unable to automatically install 'libsodium' from '/Users/lshi/.julia/packages/libsodium_jll/gfVNr/Artifacts.toml'

Stacktrace:
 [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33
 [2] #ensure_artifact_installed#42(::Platform, ::Bool, ::typeof(Pkg.Artifacts.ensure_artifact_installed), ::String, ::Dict{String,Any}, ::String) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Artifacts.jl:873
 [3] (::Pkg.Artifacts.var"#kw##ensure_artifact_installed")(::NamedTuple{(:platform, :verbose),Tuple{MacOS,Bool}}, ::typeof(Pkg.Artifacts.ensure_artifact_installed), ::String, ::Dict{String,Any}, ::String) at ./none:0
 [4] #ensure_all_artifacts_installed#43(::Platform, ::Nothing, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::typeof(Pkg.Artifacts.ensure_all_artifacts_installed), ::String) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Artifacts.jl:919
 [5] #ensure_all_artifacts_installed at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:0 [inlined]
 [6] #download_artifacts#78(::MacOS, ::Bool, ::typeof(Pkg.Operations.download_artifacts), ::Array{String,1}) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:580
 [7] #download_artifacts at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [8] #download_artifacts#73(::MacOS, ::Bool, ::typeof(Pkg.Operations.download_artifacts), ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:570
 [9] (::Pkg.Operations.var"#kw##download_artifacts")(::NamedTuple{(:platform,),Tuple{MacOS}}, ::typeof(Pkg.Operations.download_artifacts), ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at ./none:0
 [10] #add#112(::Bool, ::MacOS, ::typeof(Pkg.Operations.add), ::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}, ::Array{Base.UUID,1}) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Operations.jl:1017
 [11] #add at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [12] #add#25(::Bool, ::MacOS, ::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}, ::typeof(Pkg.API.add), ::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:102
 [13] add(::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:72
 [14] #add#24 at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:69 [inlined]
 [15] add at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:69 [inlined]
 [16] #add#21 at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:67 [inlined]
 [17] add at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:67 [inlined]
 [18] #add#20(::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}, ::typeof(Pkg.API.add), ::String) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:66
 [19] add(::String) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/API.jl:66
 [20] top-level scope at In[27]:1

```

I have tried the following code to see if the errors can be more specific from other posts:

```julia
using Pkg

Pkg.PlatformEngines.probe_platform_engines!()

Pkg.PlatformEngines.download("https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/MKL_jll.jl/releases/download/MKL-v2020.0.166%2B0/MKL.v2020.0.166.x86_64-apple-darwin14.tar.gz", "MKL_jll.tar.gz"; verbose=true)

```

And I got the following error:

`Could not download https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/MKL_jll.jl/releases/download/MKL-v2020.0.166%2B0/MKL.v2020.0.166.x86_64-apple-darwin14.tar.gz to MKL_jll.tar.gz: ProcessFailedException(Base.Process[Process(`curl -C - ‘-#’ -f -o MKL\_jll.tar.gz -L [[https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/MKL\_jll.jl/releases/download/MKL-v2020.0.166%2B0/MKL.v2020.0.166.x86\_64-apple-darwin14.tar.gz`,](https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/MKL_jll.jl/releases/download/MKL-v2020.0.166%2B0/MKL.v2020.0.166.x86_64-apple-darwin14.tar.gz%60,)]([https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/MKL\_jll.jl/releases/download/MKL-v2020.0.166%2B0/MKL.v2020.0.166.x86\_64-apple-darwin14.tar.gz`,](https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/MKL_jll.jl/releases/download/MKL-v2020.0.166%2B0/MKL.v2020.0.166.x86_64-apple-darwin14.tar.gz%60,)) ProcessSignaled(9))]) Stacktrace: [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33 [2] #download#82(::Bool, ::typeof(Pkg.PlatformEngines.download), ::String, ::String) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package\_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/PlatformEngines.jl:591 [3] (::Pkg.PlatformEngines.var"#kw##download")(::NamedTuple{(:verbose,),Tuple{Bool}}, ::typeof(Pkg.PlatformEngines.download), ::String, ::String) at ./none:0 [4] top-level scope at In[28]:4774:`

I have also tried another code:

```julia
mktempdir() do dir
           url = "https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/Expat_jll.jl/releases/download/Expat-v2.2.7+0/Expat.v2.2.7.x86_64-w64-mingw32.tar.gz"
           Pkg.PlatformEngines.download(url, joinpath(dir, "test.tar.gz"); verbose=true)
       end

```

And it gives me errors:

```julia
┌ Info: Downloading https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/Expat_jll.jl/releases/download/Expat-v2.2.7+0/Expat.v2.2.7.x86_64-w64-mingw32.tar.gz to /var/folders/tm/m13791mx0r97c705v71g683w0000gn/T/jl_J0oj5V/test.tar.gz... └ @ Pkg.PlatformEngines /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/PlatformEngines.jl:583

Could not download https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/Expat_jll.jl/releases/download/Expat-v2.2.7+0/Expat.v2.2.7.x86_64-w64-mingw32.tar.gz to /var/folders/tm/m13791mx0r97c705v71g683w0000gn/T/jl_J0oj5V/test.tar.gz: ProcessFailedException(Base.Process[Process(`curl -C - '-#' -f -o /var/folders/tm/m13791mx0r97c705v71g683w0000gn/T/jl_J0oj5V/test.tar.gz -L [https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/Expat_jll.jl/releases/download/Expat-v2.2.7+0/Expat.v2.2.7.x86_64-w64-mingw32.tar.gz`,](https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/Expat_jll.jl/releases/download/Expat-v2.2.7+0/Expat.v2.2.7.x86_64-w64-mingw32.tar.gz%60,) ProcessSignaled(9))]) Stacktrace: [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33 [2] #download#82(::Bool, ::typeof(Pkg.PlatformEngines.download), ::String, ::String) at /Users/julia/buildbot/worker/package_macos64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/PlatformEngines.jl:591 [3] #download at ./none:0 [inlined] [4] #3 at ./In[31]:3 [inlined] [5] #mktempdir#18(::String, ::typeof(mktempdir), ::var"#3#4", ::String) at ./file.jl:634 [6] mktempdir(::Function, ::String) at ./file.jl:632 (repeats 2 times) [7] top-level scope at In[31]:1

```

I’m using my own personal laptop, so there shouldn’t be any admin issues.

It would be great if someone can help me, thank you so much!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548/2 "2021-04-18T17:07:29Z")

</div>

Hi @yecyn, welcome! Are you behind a proxy/firewall by any chance? Can you run the failed command in a terminal, outside of Julia? If not, probably there are some issues with your system.

In any case, I’d warmly recommend to upgrade to the [latest stable version](https://julialang.org/downloads/#current_stable_release) of Julia, currently v1.6.0, that has lots of improvements, including to the download stack.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yecyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/22d042/32.png) [@yecyn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yecyn)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548/3 "2021-04-18T17:49:36Z")

</div>

Hi @giordano, thanks for getting back to me. I just turned off the firewall on my mac, and tried running the commend again, and it’s still having the same issue.

And I also tried running the commend in the terminal, but I got an error that there’s no commend julia:

```julia
lshi$ Julia

-bash: Julia: command not found

```

But I did install both 1.3 and 1.6.

Thanks.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548/4 "2021-04-18T17:56:56Z")

</div>

The executable is usually called `julia`, lowercase

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yecyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/22d042/32.png) [@yecyn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yecyn)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548/5 "2021-04-18T18:10:34Z")

</div>

```julia
 Luoyexins-MacBook-Pro:~ lshi$ julia
-bash: julia: command not found

```

I still have the same error.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yecyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/22d042/32.png) [@yecyn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yecyn)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548/6 "2021-04-19T13:37:15Z")

</div>

Hi @giordano , I ran the code with lower case, but I still have the same error… Thanks for helping!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yecyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/22d042/32.png) [@yecyn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yecyn)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548/7 "2021-04-19T20:47:07Z")

</div>

Hi @giordano, I added Julia into Jupyter again, and it fixed the problem. Thanks!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-unable-to-automatically-install-libsodium-from-users-lshi-julia-packages-libsodium-jll-gfvnr-artifacts-toml/59548/8 "2021-04-19T22:05:57Z")

</div>

Thanks for letting us know you solved the issues! Sorry, I’m not very familiar with macOS, I couldn’t give you very specific directions, besides having Julia in the `PATH` environment variable