# How to completely remove a local package?

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`dev` and `add` do different things. See this answer in a recent thread (the original question was different, but may give you another perspective to understand what is happening):

> [@Packages under /.julia/dev/ shared by different versions of Julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/packages-under-julia-dev-shared-by-different-versions-of-julia/42537/7):
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> Are you actually intending to edit the code in the cloned version of the package? Or are you just trying to have two different versions of A as dependencies for two different versions of Julia? If the latter, don’t develop A; instead Pkg.add the version that you want to pin for the older Julia version. Note also that you can always download a new version of A to anywhere you want using any method you want. If you then develop(path/toA) you will use that version of A in that particular environm…

A more detailed explanation of the main pkg commands here:  
[https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/v1/managing-packages/](https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/v1/managing-packages/)

For your particular case, if the dev’ed version of ’ MyPackage`lives in`.julia/dev`, maybe it’s still finding that it is there, and there might be a conflict due to the lowercase/camelcase names, but I’m not sure.

You can try to check if that’s what is happening: if the package is in `.julia/dev`, move it to another place (e.g. outside `.julia`), and try `add` again. Let’ see what happens.

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