# I've installed juliaup from the MS store, but it's not in PATH

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809>\
**Category:** Package Management\
**Tags:** juliaup\
**Created:** [March 12, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809 "2022-03-12T21:10:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![ultrapoci](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ultrapoci/32/25356_2.png) [@ultrapoci](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ultrapoci)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809/1 "2022-03-12T21:10:23Z")

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According to the [Github repository](https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup), if I install `juliaup` from the Microsoft store, using the link provided in the repository page, both `julia` and `juliaup` should be present in PATH. But instead, none of them is available. The `julia` program itself is installed and can be launched using the icon from the start menu, but if I launch `julia` or `juliaup` from terminal, they’re not found. I guess I could add them by hand to PATH, but I don’t know where the executables are located.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809/2 "2022-03-12T21:24:11Z")

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Can you post what the content of your `PATH` variable is?

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**Author:** ![ultrapoci](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ultrapoci/32/25356_2.png) [@ultrapoci](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ultrapoci)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809/3 "2022-03-12T21:35:08Z")

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Note that I was able to find the `juliaup` location by right clicking the icon that appears in the start menu and I added it to PATH by hand. But `julia` itself is still missing and I don’t know how to find it, because it is a Windows app and it doesn’t seem to have an accessible folder location.

Here is PATH:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/0/e/0e04e540c2c2c7ce89ddfba281f1bd76c89fe8d9.png)

Actually, I did find the `julia` folder of the current version of `julia`: the problem is that if I add that `julia.exe` executable, I would end up with calling a specific version of `julia` when using the command from terminal, which would make `juliaup` pointless, because I would have to update the PATH variable everytime there is an update.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809/4 "2022-03-12T22:01:11Z")

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I think something has been messed with your system settings. In a normal Windows install, the folder `%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps` should always automatically be on the `PATH`, but it looks like that is not the case on your system. That is the root problem here, if that folder is not on the `PATH` things won’t work. Easiest fix is probably to just add that to your `Path` variable in the `User variables` part of the environmental variables UI.

You should not add the folder that you found in the filesystem to the `PATH`, that won’t work, nor should you add any other folder manually.

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**Author:** ![ultrapoci](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ultrapoci/32/25356_2.png) [@ultrapoci](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ultrapoci)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809/5 "2022-03-12T23:04:56Z")

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That solved the problem! Thank you very much. Not sure why that folder wasn’t in PATH. Weird.

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**Author:** ![trev\_pow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/trev_pow/32/43542_2.png) [@trev\_pow](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/trev_pow)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809/6 "2022-10-14T00:47:18Z")

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How do you do that? I can’t find an environmental variables tab or option in any of the menu drop downs. maybe you could include some screenshots?

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**Author:** ![brianguenter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brianguenter/32/29519_2.png) [@brianguenter](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brianguenter)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-installed-juliaup-from-the-ms-store-but-its-not-in-path/77809/7 "2022-10-14T05:22:07Z")

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If you are asking how to edit environment variables on windows 11, type “environment” in the windows search menu

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/b/9b21b6bcdbea4d38ed4a087f10a5e8ede93a3102.jpeg)

and then click on “Edit the system environment variables” to get to the menu to edit the environment variables.