# How to create a system administrator depot?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-a-system-administrator-depot/14122>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package-manager\
**Created:** [August 27, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-a-system-administrator-depot/14122 "2018-08-27T10:49:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-a-system-administrator-depot/14122/7 "2018-08-27T14:42:58Z")

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@johnh, I’m well aware of modules. In fact, I kind of recommended them two days ago ([Handling multiple versions of Julia - #2 by carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/handling-multiple-versions-of-julia/14035/2)) 🙂

I want to set up a centralized installation of julia in a multi-user institution network. So far (\<v0.7) I could basically only provide the binaries and every user has it’s own `.julia`. This leads to packages and so on being installed many many times.

WIth Pkg3 in Julia 1.0 it should be possible to also have some popular packages in a centralized `julia-depot` folder somewhere (see doc quote above).

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