# Extracting Julia zip file doesn't create ~/juliax.x.x/lib/julia/sys.so automatically

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extracting-julia-zip-file-doesnt-create-juliax-x-x-lib-julia-sys-so-automatically/41086>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, installation, operating-system, filesystem\
**Created:** [June 9, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extracting-julia-zip-file-doesnt-create-juliax-x-x-lib-julia-sys-so-automatically/41086 "2020-06-09T17:18:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hasan\_Em](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hasan_em/32/15543_2.png) [@Hasan\_Em](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Hasan_Em)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extracting-julia-zip-file-doesnt-create-juliax-x-x-lib-julia-sys-so-automatically/41086/1 "2020-06-09T17:18:51Z")

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Hello,  
I’m trying to install Julia locally in a 64-bit online IDE (MimirIDE) but after downloading and extracting Julia folder:

```julia
sudo wget https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.4/julia-1.4.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf julia-1.4.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

```

and when I try to run Julia, I get the following error

```julia
user@mimir: ~ > ./julia-1.4.2/bin/julia 
ERROR: could not load library "/home/hasan/julia-1.4.2/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so"
/home/hasan/julia-1.4.2/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

```

doing this in my local Linux machine run Julia normally. I was wondering if I can create the sys.so manually in the online IDE.

Also, running free -m output the following

```julia
user@mimir: ~ > free -m
              total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15290 488 1415 152 13386 14315
Swap: 16383 98 16285

```

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extracting-julia-zip-file-doesnt-create-juliax-x-x-lib-julia-sys-so-automatically/41086/2 "2020-06-09T21:29:20Z")

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Why the sudo for wget and tar?  
Maybe access rights are wrong.

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**Author:** ![Hasan\_Em](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hasan_em/32/15543_2.png) [@Hasan\_Em](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Hasan_Em)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extracting-julia-zip-file-doesnt-create-juliax-x-x-lib-julia-sys-so-automatically/41086/3 "2020-06-09T23:03:24Z")

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tried without sudo but didn’t work, also noticed that after running wget and tar for the first time, Julia run for once and when exit and run Julia again, it give the same sys.so error. Not sure why it keeps removing that file

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extracting-julia-zip-file-doesnt-create-juliax-x-x-lib-julia-sys-so-automatically/41086/4 "2020-06-10T08:08:53Z")

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If it works on your local linux but not in the mimir shell, I guess that there is something unusual in mimir. You may ask at mimir. Or post the environment of `user@mimir` with command env. But its not sure that there is something obvious.