# Julia 1.6.2 weird installation: launches 1.6.0 instead of 1.6.2 \[SOLVED\]
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-2-weird-installation-launches-1-6-0-instead-of-1-6-2-solved/65263
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [July 25, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-2-weird-installation-launches-1-6-0-instead-of-1-6-2-solved/65263 "2021-07-25T12:19:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@mocalvao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mocalvao)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-2-weird-installation-launches-1-6-0-instead-of-1-6-2-solved/65263/1 "2021-07-25T12:19:14Z")
Hi there,
Forgive me if I am doing something very silly, but I have downloaded version 1.6.2 from:
[https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.6/julia-1.6.2-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz](https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.6/julia-1.6.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)
and installed it by simply decompressing it to my home directory, as I have done with previous versions (1.5.2 and 1.6.0). However, after creating a link in my bin directory contained in my PATH, called julia, to the executable in ~/julia-1.6.2/bin/, when I type julia, in any terminal, the version which shows up is 1.6.0, the previous one I was using. In fact, if I cd to ~/julia1.6.2/bin and then type ./julia, it still launches 1.6.0 (SIC). What is happening here?
If it is relevant, my box is a desktop using Linux Kubuntu 21.04 amd64 and my shell is fish shell.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Paulo\_Jabardo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Paulo_Jabardo)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-2-weird-installation-launches-1-6-0-instead-of-1-6-2-solved/65263/2 "2021-07-25T12:23:10Z")
Maybe you have some other julia around? Use the command `which` to see what is being called:
```julia
> which julia
```
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### Author:  [@mocalvao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mocalvao)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-2-weird-installation-launches-1-6-0-instead-of-1-6-2-solved/65263/3 "2021-07-25T12:32:23Z")
Hi Paulo,
As I have described above, I do have other versions installed, but the `which julia` command output is:
/home/orca/bin/julia
and this exact file, as per the output of the command `ls -hl /home/orca/bin/julia`, is linked to:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 orca orca 32 Jul 24 18:36 /home/orca/bin/julia → /home/orca/julia-1.6.2/bin/julia\*.
In fact, both commands: `julia` and `julia-1.6.0` launch julia 1.6.0 (sic)…
I wonder if the web link to download julia 1.6.2, despite the name, isn’t really a link to the older julia 1.6.0 version…
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### Author:  [@mocalvao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mocalvao)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-2-weird-installation-launches-1-6-0-instead-of-1-6-2-solved/65263/4 "2021-07-25T14:32:15Z")
Hi there,
It was really a silly thing: I had defined, by means of the fish shell, a function file called julia.fish, which sat in my .config/fish/functions directory, with the following code:
```julia
# Defined in - @ line 1
function julia --wraps=/home/orca/julia-1.6.0/bin/julia --description 'alias julia=/home/orca/julia-1.6.0/bin/julia'
/home/orca/julia-1.6.0/bin/julia $argv;
end
```
Thus, despite my file ~/bin/julia having been (re)defined as a symlink to ~/julia-1.6.2/bin/julia, somehow the fish function was taking precedence over the target of the symlink; I do not understand why. I will have to dig it deeper. Anyway, after changing the mentioned julia.fish so that every appearance of 1.6.0 was replaced by 1.6.2, everything seems to be working now…
Thanks, everybody!
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### Author:  [@cjdoris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cjdoris)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-2-weird-installation-launches-1-6-0-instead-of-1-6-2-solved/65263/5 "2021-07-25T19:54:58Z")
I don’t know about fish, but in bash doing `type julia` would have told you that `julia` is a function. You should always use it over `which` to find out what a command is.
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### Author:  [@mocalvao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mocalvao)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-2-weird-installation-launches-1-6-0-instead-of-1-6-2-solved/65263/6 "2021-07-25T21:18:22Z")
@cjdoris I have checked it now, under fish, and it tells that it is a fish function as well. Thanks! I will try to remind this always and keep it under my belt…