# How can I easily upgrade to the latest version of Julia?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-easily-upgrade-to-the-latest-version-of-julia/99141
**Category:** General Usage
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**Created:** [May 20, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-easily-upgrade-to-the-latest-version-of-julia/99141 "2023-05-20T02:07:39Z")
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### Author:  [@WuSiren](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/WuSiren)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-easily-upgrade-to-the-latest-version-of-julia/99141/1 "2023-05-20T02:07:39Z")
For example, if I am currently using Julia v1.8, and I want to upgrade to Julia v1.9 while keeping all previously installed packages, how can I do that?
I am using the VS Code development environment on win10.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-i-easily-upgrade-to-the-latest-version-of-julia/99141/2 "2023-05-20T06:23:44Z")
> [@Updated julia via juliaup, packages are no longer avaiable](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/updated-julia-via-juliaup-packages-are-no-longer-avaiable/98612):
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> With Julia 1.9.0 being released, I ran juliaup update in my (ubuntu 22.04) terminal to get the latest version. when I then start julia I got a ERROR: LoadError: ArgumentError: Package OhMyREPL not found in current path. - Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("OhMyREPL")` to install the OhMyREPL package. error (I have using OhMyREPL ran automatically on Julai startup). Also, ]status gives (@v1.9) pkg\> status Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.9/Project.toml` (empty project) Ut seems like all the packages I…