# How to upgrade easily?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-upgrade-easily/27753>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** juliaup\
**Created:** [August 20, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-upgrade-easily/27753 "2019-08-20T11:26:33Z")\
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> [@rdeits](#):
>
> For example, if you had Julia 1.2 installed, and you then added Julia 1.3, you could do:
> 
> ```julia-auto
> cp ~/.julia/environments/v1.2 ~/.julia/environments/v1.3
> 
> ```
> 
> and then launch Julia and do:
> 
> ```julia-auto
> pkg> instantiate
> 
> ```

Thanks. Thats basically how I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2 and it was completely painless, and it’s nice to have both versions installed if ever wanting to go back and try something in previous version. I followed the advice of @StevenSiew and @Tamas_Papp in these two posts in the " [Julia v1.2.0 has been released](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-2-0-has-been-released/27742)" announcement thread:

> [@Julia v1.2.0 has been released](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-2-0-has-been-released/27742/6):
>
> When I upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1, someone gave me these instructions. Are these instructions still valid for the upgrade of 1.1 to 1.2 Note that if you want to keep the same packages as in 1.0 you can copy (or rename if you are no longer using julia 1.0) the .julia/environments/v1.0 folder to .julia/environments/v1.1 $ cd ~/.julia $ cd environments/ $ ls v1.0 $ cp -rp v1.0 v1.1 $ ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 ssiew staff 136 18 Aug 2018 v1.0 drwxr-xr-x 4 ssiew staff 136 18 Aug 2018 v1.1…

and

> [@Julia v1.2.0 has been released](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-2-0-has-been-released/27742/7):
>
> Pretty much yes, but of course you would have to modify cp -rp v1.1 v1.2 if you are upgrading from 1.1. symlinking everything to a common directory is also an alternative:

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