# Failed to precompile Gadfly

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/failed-to-precompile-gadfly/7073>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [November 14, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/failed-to-precompile-gadfly/7073 "2017-11-14T17:24:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yifan\_Liu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4da419/32.png) [@Yifan\_Liu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Yifan_Liu)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/failed-to-precompile-gadfly/7073/1 "2017-11-14T17:24:04Z")

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When I tried to use the Gadfly package, I got the error message:

```julia
Failed to precompile Gadfly to /home/Yifan/.julia/lib/v0.6/Gadfly.ji.
compilecache(::String) at loading.jl:703
_require(::Symbol) at loading.jl:490
require(::Symbol) at loading.jl:398
(::Atom.##63#66)() at eval.jl:104
withpath(::Atom.##63#66, ::Void) at utils.jl:30
withpath(::Function, ::Void) at eval.jl:38
macro expansion at eval.jl:103 [inlined]
(::Atom.##62#65{Dict{String,Any}})() at task.jl:80

```

I am running Julia 0.6.0 on Atom on Fedora 25 workstation.