# How to completely remove a local package?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-local-package/42799>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** package, installation\
**Created:** [July 9, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-local-package/42799 "2020-07-09T19:39:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sunjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@sunjin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sunjin)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-local-package/42799/21 "2020-07-09T20:57:16Z")

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Thank you all. I marked kevbonham’s answer as solution but obviously all of you are of great help 😉

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**Author:** ![kevbonham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kevbonham/32/216165_2.png) [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-local-package/42799/22 "2020-07-09T21:01:26Z")

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> [@sunjin](#):
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> Thanks for your response. Somehow even though I `dev` ed my package, my `~/.julia/` folder does not contain a `dev` folder, which may be strange.

If you first created the package in, say, `~/Desktop/MyPackage`, and then did `]dev ~/Desktop/MyPackage`, julia will just point directly to that repo. I’m not sure if Pkg is smart enough to remember all the paths to `dev`ed packages in all of your manifests, but it would not surprise me if it was.

I tend to think of packages that are `dev`ed and those that are `add`ed in completely different buckets. The former are just git repos that julia knows about, and never messes with. The later I treat as black boxes that I only modify with `Pkg`.

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