# Julia 0.5 can't load basic modules

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-5-cant-load-basic-modules/1332>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-5-cant-load-basic-modules/1332 "2017-01-06T17:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![sonicsmooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@sonicsmooth](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sonicsmooth)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-5-cant-load-basic-modules/1332/1 "2017-01-06T17:26:16Z")

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Hi, I’ve upgraded to Julia-0.5, but having some trouble with very basic setup.

In short, I can’t get _any_ modules to load, even after verifying `LOAD_PATH` includes the directory where the modules are stored.

Using Win7 x64.

Starting with `Pkg.add("Atom")`, it fails with building `HttpParser` because it can’t find `BinDeps`.

Turns out `Pkg.add(...)` puts packages in `c:\users\me\.julia\v0.5`, but `LOAD_PATH` is by default set to a couple places in `AppData\Local\...`, so in fact _none_ of the modules that are installed are `use`able.

So I add the module path to `LOAD_PATH` by saying `push!(LOAD_PATH, Pkg.dir())`, but no luck. I also tried changing the capitalization of the path, but I don’t think this matters. Not sure why I need to do this out of the box. I didn’t see any “julia” in the Windows registry which might impact an install after a previous 0.4.5 install.

Here is now my LOAD\_PATH, and confirmation that `BinDeps` is installed, as far as `Pkg` is concerned.

```
julia> LOAD_PATH
2-element Array{String,1}:
 "C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Julia-0.5.0\\local\\share\\julia\\site\\v0.5"
 "C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Julia-0.5.0\\share\\julia\\site\\v0.5"

julia> push!(LOAD_PATH, Pkg.dir())
3-element Array{String,1}:
 "C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Julia-0.5.0\\local\\share\\julia\\site\\v0.5"
 "C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Julia-0.5.0\\share\\julia\\site\\v0.5"
 "c:\\users\\me\\.julia\\v0.5"

julia> using BinDeps
ERROR: ArgumentError: Module BinDeps not found in current path.
Run `Pkg.add("BinDeps")` to install the BinDeps package.
 in require(::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:365

julia> Pkg.installed("BinDeps")
v"0.4.5"

```

From the cmd shell, I confirm that BinDeps is in the location shown above:

```
C:\users\me\.julia\v0.5>dir
 Volume in drive C is Windows7_OS
 Volume Serial Number is A486-AC98

 Directory of C:\users\me\.julia\v0.5

01/06/2017 08:56 AM <DIR> .
01/06/2017 08:56 AM <DIR> ..
01/06/2017 08:56 AM <DIR> .cache
01/06/2017 08:56 AM <DIR> AbstractTrees
01/06/2017 08:56 AM <DIR> ArgParse
01/06/2017 08:56 AM <DIR> ASTInterpreter
01/06/2017 08:56 AM <DIR> Atom
01/06/2017 08:56 AM <DIR> BinDeps
<more>

```

Any idea how to get this working?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![sonicsmooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@sonicsmooth](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sonicsmooth)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-5-cant-load-basic-modules/1332/2 "2017-01-06T17:38:48Z")

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I’ve found the answer here:

> [@Windows: capitalization of the HOME environment variable](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-capitalization-of-the-home-environment-variable/200):
>
> I have HOME defined in an environment variable. Starting with Julia v0.5.0, I could install packages, but I could not load them with using or import. It turns out, I had the capitalization wrong in my HOME environment variable. That hasn’t been a problem with other programs (including Julia v0.4.x) because Windows programs don’t normally care about file/path case. Once I fixed my capitalization, things worked fine. It might help someone else who was confused by this. The error message wasn’t ob…

I too had all lowercase in my `HOME` environment variable. Changing `c:\users\...` to `C:\Users\...` fixed it.  
Took me a day and a half, three reinstalls, and 4 forum posts to figure this out! 🙂