# Julia and conda
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-conda/36731
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** package
**Created:** [March 30, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-conda/36731 "2020-03-30T11:15:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@serhii](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/serhii)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-conda/36731/1 "2020-03-30T11:15:11Z")
Hi
The version of Julia that is available on [conda](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/julia) is 1.1.
However, it seems that the [latest version](https://julialang.org/downloads/) is 1.4.
I was wondering when 1.4 is going to be updated on conda.
Also, where can I read about best practices regarding setting up an environment for julia (keeping track of julia packages and other dependencies)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-conda/36731/2 "2020-03-30T11:33:19Z")
I don’t know about the first question, but for the latter, check out the [documentation for Pkg](https://julialang.github.io/Pkg.jl/v1/) the package manager for Julia.
Circling back to the first question, unless you really need conda for other aspects of your environment, I **strongly** recommend against trying to use it for Julia (I speak as someone that uses conda a bunch for python environments). Julia’s package manager is really well designed, and deals well with environments with different dependencies right in the folder of your project. It can take a little getting used to, but it’s worth the effort. And if you have questions, feel free to ask here or on slack.
Also, you may be interested in [Conda.jl](https://github.com/JuliaPy/Conda.jl) if you also need to manage python dependencies in a Julia project.
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### Author:  [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-conda/36731/3 "2020-03-30T14:19:26Z")
You should contact the conda maintainers about updating the version of Julia. As with Linux distros, we don’t have any control over that. Would be great if they shipped a newer version of Julia.