# Julia 0.6 does not respect JULIA\_PKDIR environmnt variable?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-does-not-respect-julia-pkdir-environmnt-variable/1475>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [January 14, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-does-not-respect-julia-pkdir-environmnt-variable/1475 "2017-01-14T01:11:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-does-not-respect-julia-pkdir-environmnt-variable/1475/1 "2017-01-14T01:11:14Z")

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Hi,

Contrary to all previous Julia versions, 0.6 writes the .julia dir under (my case) C:\Users\j.julia but I have clearly sated that I want it on a different directory as indicated in

JULIA\_PKDIR = c:\j.julia

Repeating me, the above has worked since julia 2.x but apparently not anymore.

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**Author:** ![greg\_plowman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/greg_plowman/32/8100_2.png) [@greg\_plowman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/greg_plowman)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-does-not-respect-julia-pkdir-environmnt-variable/1475/2 "2017-01-14T02:13:24Z")

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Presumably that’s a typo, you meant JULIA\_PKGDIR?

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-does-not-respect-julia-pkdir-environmnt-variable/1475/3 "2017-01-14T03:01:56Z")

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Ops, no, it was not a typo. I must have screwed that env var sometime after 0.5. Correcting it brings things back to normal (that, it avoid the c:\Users black hole directory.

Thanks