# Having trouble to get julia 1.5.3 setup in my students windows computers. It seems

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**Created:** [February 16, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/having-trouble-to-get-julia-1-5-3-setup-in-my-students-windows-computers-it-seems/55383 "2021-02-16T09:56:41Z")\
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Having trouble to get julia 1.5.3 setup in my students windows computers. It seems like the General registry is not added with the installation? Moreoever, when one tries `] registry add General` they get `ERROR: SystemError: opening file "C:\\Users\\firstname lastname\\.julia\\registries\\General\\Registry.toml": No such file or directory` Anybody has experienced something similar?

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This is the solution:

```julia
using Pkg
rm(joinpath(DEPOT_PATH[1], "registries", "General"); force=true, recursive=true)
withenv("JULIA_PKG_SERVER"=>") do
    Pkg.Registry.add("General")
end

```

basically we remove all traces of the general registry from the disk, and then readd it while disabling the pkg server temporarily (which causes the registry to be fetched from git instead).

Apparently the error is due to some problems with Windows’s unpacking of tarballs. Using git helps.

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**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/having-trouble-to-get-julia-1-5-3-setup-in-my-students-windows-computers-it-seems/55383/3 "2021-02-16T11:21:02Z")

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Please consider using the Chocolatey package manager - I use Windows 10 on my laptop and it has been invaluable. Every Julia installation ahs been faultless.

> **[Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows](https://chocolatey.org/)**
>
> Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. Chocolatey integrates w/SCCM, Puppet, Chef, etc. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software...