# Is it possible to use Pkg3 with Julia 0.6?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-pkg3-with-julia-0-6/12568>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [July 21, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-pkg3-with-julia-0-6/12568 "2018-07-21T18:43:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![ajd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ajd/32/46350_2.png) [@ajd](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ajd)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-pkg3-with-julia-0-6/12568/1 "2018-07-21T18:43:49Z")

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I am trying to use Julia on a cluster where all of my persistent directories are accessed over NFS. Thus the package manager is basically unusable due to the well-documented slowness of Pkg2 on NFS.

Is it possible to install and use Pkg3 on Julia 0.6.3 to avoid this problem?

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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-pkg3-with-julia-0-6/12568/2 "2018-07-21T19:11:09Z")

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Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure the answer is no. Pkg3 relies on improvements in the internal package loading mechanisms which are only present in 0.7.