How to properly update Julia without re-uploading packages

[davide]

Hi @Luigi_Marongiu,

maybe this helps:

How to update Julia?

This can be done also when updating from, say, 1.7.x to 1.8.x. Not to manually reinstall all the packages, , after installing, just create the v1.8 folder in the folder .julia/environments/ and copy the Project.toml file from the v1.7 to the v1.8 folder. Then in a session of the new julia version run: ] instantiate See FAQ.