# Error while trying to download the Distributions Package on JuliaPro

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Tags:** package, statistics, installation\
**Created:** [May 9, 2021, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812 "2021-05-09T07:43:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Diana\_Paola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/diana_paola/32/24905_2.png) [@Diana\_Paola](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Diana_Paola)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/1 "2021-05-09T07:43:23Z")

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Hi, I’m pretty new in Julia and I’m trying to download the Distributions Package on JuliaPro 1.5.0-1 and it seems to be an error but I don’t know why 😕 . If anyone can help me because I really need it and I don’t know what to do, Thank you 🙂

 ![Error JuliaPro](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/b/1/b141baa2c65889aa35bf7b8e90f0030f210ca353.png)

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**Author:** ![simeonschaub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/simeonschaub/32/216566_2.png) [@simeonschaub](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simeonschaub)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/2 "2021-05-09T07:51:41Z")

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Any reason you are using JuliaPro? Most users will want to use the latest community-supported stable release from [Download Julia](https://julialang.org/downloads/), which is 1.6.1.

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**Author:** ![Diana\_Paola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/diana_paola/32/24905_2.png) [@Diana\_Paola](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Diana_Paola)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/3 "2021-05-10T00:46:44Z")

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Actually I tried with the previous version and the 6.1.1 but there is another error when trying to install the IJulia package. Any clue? 😕

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/6/f/6fc00591ae8e4254b33ff129833aac813bf31278.png)

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/4 "2021-05-10T01:10:19Z")

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Hello @Diana_Paola Please promise one thing - do not get frustrated and give up.  
We often see people on here who want to use Julia - which is a fantastic language.  
They get frustrated when a package will not install.  
The community here are very friendly - we really will answer any small questions and you can ask the most stupid things. I do so regularly!

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/5 "2021-05-10T01:12:37Z")

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I see you are using Atom. I was an enthusiastic Atom user. However it should be said that the development of Atom is slowing down a lot and most people now use VSCode and the plugins for VScode.

I think your problem is the JuliaComputingRegistry which is left over from the installation of JuliaPro which you had.  
What are the contents of your folder C:\Users\pucca.julia\Registries

Also how did you uninstall JuliaPro ?

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**Author:** ![Diana\_Paola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/diana_paola/32/24905_2.png) [@Diana\_Paola](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Diana_Paola)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/6 "2021-05-10T06:37:56Z")

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Thanks for the support! I swear I am really getting frustrated with all of this haha. This is what I found:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/a/9/a9704447ef856995f2f690013d67acae6773e388.png)

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**Author:** ![simeonschaub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/simeonschaub/32/216566_2.png) [@simeonschaub](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simeonschaub)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 6:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/7 "2021-05-10T06:48:16Z")

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It looks like you still have the JuliaPro registry set up instead of the General registry. Can you first try `registry rm JuliaComputingRegistry` and then `registry add General` in the pkg prompt?

As a more general matter, please post the output of commands inside triple backticks (```` ... ````) as text instead of posting screenshots. (See [Please read: make it easier to help you](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757))

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/8 "2021-05-10T07:07:18Z")

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Diana, thankyou for the response! We will help you to get Julia working.  
May we ask what tye of work you are planning to do?

Also please look at Pluto notebooks - they may be very useful to you.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/b/7/b7565ec3384f0ce8ca14bb7121cabbb2008827a9.jpeg "JuliaCon 2020 | Interactive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF8DjrQSSk)

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**Author:** ![Diana\_Paola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/diana_paola/32/24905_2.png) [@Diana\_Paola](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Diana_Paola)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/9 "2021-05-14T03:47:14Z")

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Hi, I wanted to thank you for your help 🙂 , finally I could install the packages that I needed.  
Apparently it was what you said, I had the JuliaPro registry set up instead of the General.

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**Author:** ![Diana\_Paola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/diana_paola/32/24905_2.png) [@Diana\_Paola](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Diana_Paola)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-while-trying-to-download-the-distributions-package-on-juliapro/60812/10 "2021-05-14T03:55:24Z")

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Hey Johnh, I checked the video of Puto notebooks, thank you. Also I finally could install the packages that I needed, I am studying hypothesis tests for distribution functions in general and that is why I needed the package, so now I can start working on Julia,Thank you for your support! 🙂