# Finding package that requires admin permission to install

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/finding-package-that-requires-admin-permission-to-install/131758>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package, windows, security, installation\
**Created:** [August 21, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/finding-package-that-requires-admin-permission-to-install/131758 "2025-08-21T18:12:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/finding-package-that-requires-admin-permission-to-install/131758/1 "2025-08-21T18:12:36Z")

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I gave a short-course this last weekend and the participants reported a pop-up window asking for admin permission while installing GeoStats.jl on Windows machines in their lab.

1. How can I identify the indirect dependency of the project that is causing this annoying issue?
2. Do we have tooling to monitor indirect dependencies for bad practices and security breaches?

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**Author:** ![raman\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raman_kumar/32/26782_2.png) [@raman\_kumar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/raman_kumar)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/finding-package-that-requires-admin-permission-to-install/131758/2 "2025-08-21T18:31:39Z")

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May be this pop-up window was from virus scanners in Windows.

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**Author:** ![digital\_carver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/digital_carver/32/33818_2.png) [@digital\_carver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/digital_carver)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/finding-package-that-requires-admin-permission-to-install/131758/3 "2025-08-21T19:13:41Z")

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Yeah, it would be very useful to know what the popup said and was titled as. I not-infrequently get popups like [this](https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/189880/should-i-allow-communication-on-public-networks) when doing package operations from Julia, regardless of what the packages themselves are. Maybe it’s some Windows heuristic of a non-GUI program doing a lot of network operations or something? If the pop-up was something like that (the specific UI design has changed in recent Windows 10/11 versions I believe, but it’s the same questions and options), then it’s no dependency causing the issue, just Windows things. (I haven’t had to tackle this on systems I don’t have admin on, so I don’t have a solution if this does turn out to be the issue.)

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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/finding-package-that-requires-admin-permission-to-install/131758/4 "2025-08-21T20:01:51Z")

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It is probably the same kind of pop-up @digital_carver. I remember seeing it quickly on their machines. Will try to reproduce on my tablet later.