# Issue plotting from REPL
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** plotting
**Created:** [May 19, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784 "2020-05-19T23:12:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Gaston](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gaston)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784/1 "2020-05-19T23:12:28Z")
Hi,
I’m facing a problem trying to plot from the REPL (that was working fine but for some reason has decided to stop doing so).
If I run this simple code:
julia\> using Plots
julia\> gr()
julia\> x = Vector(1:pi/10:6\*pi);
julia\> y = cos.(x);
julia\> plot(x, y)
The REPL will not return from the last sentence. However, the same does not occur running the same code in the jupyter-notebook in which the plot shows as expected.
Any hint ?
Gaston
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784/2 "2020-05-20T01:31:05Z")
Have you tried updating your packages?
Also note that GR has been the default plotting package for a while, so `gr()` is no longer necessary.
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### Author:  [@Gaston](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gaston)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784/3 "2020-05-20T01:52:55Z")
Thanks for the response.
I’ve just tried updating: no luck.
Regarding the backend, using different backends leads different result: plotly calls the browser while pyplot behaves normally throwing just a standard plot window.
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### Author:  [@jheinen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jheinen)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784/4 "2020-05-20T03:51:23Z")
… is your run-time really up-to-date? Please stop any GKSTerm or (GKS QtTerm) and:
```julia
ENV["GRDIR"]=""
] update GR
```
If this doesn’t help, which platform are you using?
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### Author:  [@Gaston](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gaston)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784/5 "2020-05-20T11:37:32Z")
Still no luck.
julia\> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.4.1
Commit 381693d3df (2020-04-14 17:20 UTC)
Platform Info:
OS: Linux (x86\_64-linux-gnu)
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz
WORD\_SIZE: 64
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-8.0.1 (ORCJIT, ivybridge)
julia\> ENV[“GRDIR”]=“”
(@v1.4) pkg\> update GR
Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General`
Updating git-repo `https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git`
Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.4/Project.toml`
[no changes]
Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.4/Manifest.toml`
[no changes]
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### Author:  [@jheinen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jheinen)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784/6 "2020-05-20T13:43:30Z")
Sorry - my mistake:
```julia
ENV["GRDIR"]=""
] build GR
```
and then
```julia
using GR
version()
```
… should respond with “0.49.0.post45”
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### Author:  [@Gaston](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gaston)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784/7 "2020-05-20T13:47:38Z")
Ok, I get:
julia\> ENV[“GRDIR”]=“”
“”
(@v1.4) pkg\> build GR
Building GR → `~/.julia/packages/GR/cRdXQ/deps/build.log`
julia\> using GR
julia\> version()
“0.49.0.post47”
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### Author:  [@Gaston](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gaston)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issue-plotting-from-repl/39784/8 "2020-05-22T20:35:58Z")
Hi,
The issue seems to be solved after installing qt5-default.
The problem may have arisen after and upgrade in Debian testing. Not sure… the only related package that I see was install on 2020-05-07 is libqt5scripttools5.
Anyway, after installing qt5-default the plots are working normally using GR backend.
regards,
Gaston