# Install binary package such as OpenBLAS\_jll via very slow internet connection

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [March 22, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-binary-package-such-as-openblas-jll-via-very-slow-internet-connection/36335 "2020-03-22T05:54:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/install-binary-package-such-as-openblas-jll-via-very-slow-internet-connection/36335/14 "2020-03-23T12:23:06Z")

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Along those lines, could somebody explain to me why OpenBLAS\_jll is even necessary to begin with? Julia ships with a perfectly functional libopenblas64\_.so; why do we need an additional package to provide the same library?

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