# How to request for conda to support Julia install for Windows OS?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** conda, conda-forge\
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092 "2021-01-28T01:41:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![kengonn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kengonn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kengonn)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092/1 "2021-01-28T01:41:07Z")

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Hi,

I noticed that we can use Anaconda to install Julia, but unfortunately it appears to be available only for Linux and Mac (OSX).

How do we request for a Windows version to be made available? Or if it is straightforward, how to go about doing it?

Sorry if this has already been asked, I searched but the topics I found didn’t address this. ☹

Regards,  
Keng Onn

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**Author:** ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092/2 "2021-01-28T03:39:31Z")

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The Anaconda packages of Julia seem to be quite out-of-date ([conda-forge has](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/julia) version 1.1.11), and I wouldn’t really recommend installing Julia this way on any platform. Just use the [point-and-click Julia installer](https://julialang.org/downloads/) for Windows.

Realize that Julia has its [own package manager](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Pkg/), so you only need an external package manager like Anaconda to install _Python_ packages (if you want to [call Python](https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl) from Julia), and even then you can let [Julia manage Anaconda](https://github.com/JuliaPy/Conda.jl) for you automatically.

(Unfortunately, Anaconda transitioned in 2020 to becoming [free only for non-commercial use](https://www.anaconda.com/terms-of-service), so its future as a popular Python distribution seems uncertain.)

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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092/3 "2021-01-28T04:48:56Z")

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I’ve been looking at what it might take to improve the conda-forge issue. The problem is that the conda-forge maintainers tried to integrate Julia with other existing libraries in conda-forge, but some of Julia’s dependencies are heavily patched.

If we’re not going to integrate Julia with other libraries in conda-forge, there might be little point in having conda-forge just do a vanilla build. The main utility would be allowing Julia to be installed via conda-forge.

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**Author:** ![kengonn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kengonn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kengonn)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092/4 "2021-02-03T07:12:13Z")

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Thanks for your helpful replies! And apologies for my late response \> \<.

Reason why I’m asking is because I’m trying to use Julia within an enterprise environment (with firewall, proxies etc) and I can’t use point-and-click installers as I don’t have admin rights.

The folks here have already set up an Anaconda-[Artifactory](https://jfrog.com/artifactory/) process whereby people could get Python set up (via Anaconda) and use “conda install ” for whichever Python packages they want. I was hoping to do the same for Julia as well, i.e. install Julia via Anaconda so that I can try it out.

My goal is to try out Julia on Jupyter notebooks 🙂 . Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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**Author:** ![lungben](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lungben/32/12314_2.png) [@lungben](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lungben)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092/5 "2021-02-03T12:41:54Z")

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Enterprise environments with arbitrary restrictions is a good argument…

Note that, in addition to the Julia installation, you also need access to the Julia registry and Github so that you can install packages with the Julia built-in Pkg manager.

Would Docker be an alternative for you?  
There are ready-to-use images for Jupyter+Julia and for Pluto.jl (Julia alternative to Jupyter) available.

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**Author:** ![kengonn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a183cd/32.png) [@kengonn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kengonn)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092/6 "2021-02-04T01:43:14Z")

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Great point! I haven’t considered Docker at all. Apparently my company does allow Docker, I’ll give this a shot and see how this goes :), thanks again!

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**Author:** ![lungben](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lungben/32/12314_2.png) [@lungben](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lungben)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092/7 "2021-02-04T07:10:45Z")

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Some suggestions:

[https://hub.docker.com/r/jupyter/datascience-notebook](https://hub.docker.com/r/jupyter/datascience-notebook)

[https://hub.docker.com/r/plutojl/pluto](https://hub.docker.com/r/plutojl/pluto)

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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-request-for-conda-to-support-julia-install-for-windows-os/54092/8 "2021-12-28T19:30:21Z")

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Since I last posted, Julia is now updated to 1.7.1 on conda-forge for Linux and macOS.

After we complete some clean up, a conda-forge Windows build is next on my todo list there.

After rereading the post, I do wonder why the op does not use the portable download which is just a zip file for Windows. It does not require admin privileges.

The Julia build via conda-forge is not officially supported. I am currently the maintainer of the Julia feedstock for conda-forge. If there are any issues with the conda-forge install of Julia, please post an issue here:

[https://github.com/conda-forge/julia-feedstock](https://github.com/conda-forge/julia-feedstock)