# Julia 1.2 on CentOS: package manager says ERROR: no active project
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** package
**Created:** [January 7, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074 "2020-01-07T19:33:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/1 "2020-01-07T19:33:51Z")
After installing julia 1.2 by extracting the tar.gz file I can run the julia console but when I enter the package manager console and do add I get ERROR: no active project. Tere’s no prefix (v1.2) in the pm prompt.
Before with julia 0.6 everything worked on the same machine. I also upgraded an ubuntu machine from 0.6 to 1.2 and there everything worked.
I know .julia/evironments and its files were missing; I even scp’d them from my ubuntu machine to this machine and also tried activate . but nothing seems to work.
What to do?
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### Author:  [@00vareladavid](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/00vareladavid)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/2 "2020-01-07T19:40:12Z")
What is the value of `DEPOT_PATH`?
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/3 "2020-01-08T08:05:33Z")
It’s not set
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/4 "2020-01-08T10:20:36Z")
Did you set `JULIA_DEPOT_PATH` then? Otherwise `DEPOT_PATH` should be set to defaults by Julia.
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/5 "2020-01-08T10:43:43Z")
No I didn’t set it. There is no JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH env var.
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/6 "2020-01-08T10:45:22Z")
And yet
```julia
julia> DEPOT_PATH
```
is an empty array?
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/7 "2020-01-08T11:37:31Z")
I get this
“/root/.julia”
“/opt/julia-1.2.0/local/share/julia”
“/opt/julia-1.2.0/share/julia”
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/8 "2020-01-08T11:44:51Z")
Ok, what about
```julia
julia> ENV["JULIA_LOAD_PATH"]
julia> LOAD_PATH
julia> Base.load_path()
```
?
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/9 "2020-01-08T12:16:04Z")
julia\> ENV[“JULIA\_LOAD\_PATH”]
“/opt/VMRecommender/src/”
julia\> LOAD\_PATH
1-element Array{String,1}:
“/opt/VMRecommender/src/”
julia\> Base.load\_path()
1-element Array{String,1}:
“/opt/VMRecommender/src/”
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/10 "2020-01-08T12:25:13Z")
Why did you set that load path? I’m guessing the problem is that there is no `Project.toml` file at that location.
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/11 "2020-01-08T12:26:36Z")
That’s where my sources are
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/12 "2020-01-08T12:31:02Z")
Comparing with my ubuntu machine I see that it’s different there. I’ll try to clear that env load path and see if that fixes it.
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/13 "2020-01-08T12:31:35Z")
Sources of what? Packages? Sounds like you are using `LOAD_PATH` to something it is not meant for.
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/14 "2020-01-08T12:32:21Z")
No my application source code.
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/15 "2020-01-08T12:34:14Z")
For an individual package it should work if you give it the path to the root, probably just remove the trailing `src/` would make it work.
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Sagaert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Sagaert)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-2-on-centos-package-manager-says-error-no-active-project/33074/16 "2020-01-08T12:41:22Z")
unsetting the JULIA\_LOAD\_PATH env var fixed it!
Thanks!