# How to completely remove a package
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-package/69422
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [October 8, 2021, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-package/69422 "2021-10-08T08:35:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Johncowk](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Johncowk)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2021, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-package/69422/1 "2021-10-08T08:35:51Z")
I tried removing the pacakge with `rm packagename`, which seems to have de-installed the package, but I see that it is still there in `\.julia\packages\`
Last time I manually remove a directory from `\.julia\packages\`, it cause a horrible mess so I would like to avoid that. Is there a way to **completely** remove a package, or will things keep adding up?
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### Author:  [@albheim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/albheim)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2021, 8:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-package/69422/2 "2021-10-08T08:52:55Z")
There is
```julia
import Pkg
Pkg.gc()
```
which will look at all recently active manifests and see what packages are not in use and can be removed (removed as in deleted from the system).
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### Author:  [@Gnimuc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gnimuc)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-package/69422/3 "2021-10-08T10:08:08Z")
You could also set the period by
```julia
julia> using Dates
julia> Pkg.gc(collect_delay=Dates.Second(1))
```
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### Author:  [@Johncowk](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Johncowk)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-completely-remove-a-package/69422/4 "2021-10-08T16:46:36Z")
Combining `Pkg.gc(collect_delay=Dates.Second(0))` with `rm packagename` beforehand did the trick. thanks