# Julia 0.6.4 creating ~/.julia/lib/v0.6 even when external JULIA\_PKGDIR is specified

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**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-4-creating-julia-lib-v0-6-even-when-external-julia-pkgdir-is-specified/13432 "2018-08-14T11:13:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-4-creating-julia-lib-v0-6-even-when-external-julia-pkgdir-is-specified/13432/1 "2018-08-14T11:13:49Z")

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I want to use both Julia 0.6.4 and Julia 1.0 in my Linux system (Elementary OS 0.4.1, based on Ubuntu 16.04).  
In order to isolate 0.6 from 1.0, I created a dir ~/.julia-0.6/ and modified `{JULIA_DIR}/etc/julia/juliarc.jl` to include `ENV["JULIA_PKGDIR"] = "/home/vish/.julia-0.6"`. Now if I start Julia (specifically calling 0.6.4 binary) from terminal and do a `using <Package>` at REPL, it creates `~/.julia/libs/v0.6` and creates some `*.ji` files init. However, if I disable that line in `juliarc.jl` and instead call julia with `JULIA_PKGDIR=${HOME}/.julia-0.6/ <path to 0.6.4>/bin/julia`, the `lib` gets created inside my specified directory only, instead of `~/.julia`.  
I want to use the solution with modifying `juliarc.jl` files due to some IJulia requirements (Can’t specify a ENV VAR in kernel.json to make the other solution work!!).

So is it possible to specify the `JULIA_PKGDIR` in `juliarc.jl` and still make julia generate `lib` inside the specified directory?