# Is there a simple Julia upgrade command?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-simple-julia-upgrade-command/45691 "2020-08-27T08:23:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-simple-julia-upgrade-command/45691/24 "2020-08-27T20:54:40Z")

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> [@PetrKryslUCSD](#):
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> All it takes is around five minutes to get it back through a reinstallation.

Five minutes of efficiently doing exactly the right things translates to half an hour of googling and swearing, and reading the documentation of symlinks, and searching through the forum after half-remembered advice on package copying.

I sometimes postpone updating for weeks or months because of this. Doing `something Julia update`, is an incredible improvement.

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