# Julia fails to precompile plots

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [October 7, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411 "2022-10-07T15:56:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Matteo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matteo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/1 "2022-10-07T15:56:16Z")

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I’m using Julia 1.8 on my Mac with Atom. I know that Atom is not anymore the editor recommended for Julia, but I think my problem is not related to Atom. In fact I have a problem with the package “Plots”: when I run the code:

```julia
using Pkg
Pkg.add("Plots")
using Plots

```

I get the error message:

```julia
LoadError: Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to /Users/matteomassaro/.julia/compiled/v1.8/Plots/jl_Ws5Lcl.
in expression starting at untitled-5f892e86ad849cf5f05bd80a594d2d04:3
error(s::String) at error.jl:35
compilecache(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, internal_stderr::IO, internal_stdout::IO, keep_loaded_modules::Bool) at loading.jl:1707
compilecache at loading.jl:1651 [inlined]
_require(pkg::Base.PkgId) at loading.jl:1337
_require_prelocked(uuidkey::Base.PkgId) at loading.jl:1200
macro expansion at loading.jl:1180 [inlined]
macro expansion at lock.jl:223 [inlined]
require(into::Module, mod::Symbol) at loading.jl:1144
eval at boot.jl:368 [inlined]
include_string(mapexpr::typeof(identity), mod::Module, code::String, filename::String) at loading.jl:1428

```

So it looks like Julia fails to precompile the package Plots. How can I fix this?

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**Author:** ![awasserman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@awasserman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/awasserman)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/2 "2022-10-07T17:14:27Z")

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What is your current project environment? You can see this by running

```julia
status --manifest

```

from the package manager prompt.

Can you try installing in a fresh environment? For example,

```julia
using Pkg
Pkg.activate(temp=true)
Pkg.add("Plots")
using Plots

```

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**Author:** ![Matteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Matteo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matteo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/3 "2022-10-07T18:17:18Z")

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The command :

> [@awasserman](#):
>
> `status --manifest`

gives me:

(@v1.8) pkg\> status --manifest  
Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.8/Manifest.toml`  
⌅ [1520ce14] AbstractTrees v0.3.4  
[bf4720bc] AssetRegistry v0.1.0  
[c52e3926] Atom v0.12.38  
⌅ [00ebfdb7] CSTParser v2.5.0  
[d360d2e6] ChainRulesCore v1.15.6  
[9e997f8a] ChangesOfVariables v0.1.4  
[53a63b46] CodeTools v0.7.1  
[da1fd8a2] CodeTracking v1.1.0  
[35d6a980] ColorSchemes v3.19.0  
[3da002f7] ColorTypes v0.11.4  
[c3611d14] ColorVectorSpace v0.9.9  
[5ae59095] Colors v0.12.8  
[a80b9123] CommonMark v0.8.6  
⌅ [34da2185] Compat v3.46.0  
[8f4d0f93] Conda v1.7.0  
[d38c429a] Contour v0.6.2  
[a8cc5b0e] Crayons v4.1.1  
[9a962f9c] DataAPI v1.12.0  
[864edb3b] DataStructures v0.18.13  
[b4f34e82] Distances v0.10.7  
[33d173f1] DocSeeker v0.4.3  
⌅ [ffbed154] DocStringExtensions v0.8.6  
⌅ [e30172f5] Documenter v0.26.3  
[c87230d0] FFMPEG v0.4.1  
[5789e2e9] FileIO v1.15.0  
[53c48c17] FixedPointNumbers v0.8.4  
⌅ [08572546] FlameGraphs v0.2.10  
[59287772] Formatting v0.4.2  
[de31a74c] FunctionalCollections v0.5.0  
[fb4132e2] FuzzyCompletions v0.5.1  
⌃ [28b8d3ca] GR v0.69.3  
[42e2da0e] Grisu v1.0.2  
⌅ [cd3eb016] HTTP v0.9.17  
[9fb69e20] Hiccup v0.2.2  
[7073ff75] IJulia v1.23.3  
⌅ [b5f81e59] IOCapture v0.1.1  
[9b13fd28] IndirectArrays v1.0.0  
[83e8ac13] IniFile v0.5.1  
[3587e190] InverseFunctions v0.1.8  
[92d709cd] IrrationalConstants v0.1.1  
[1019f520] JLFzf v0.1.5  
[692b3bcd] JLLWrappers v1.4.1  
[682c06a0] JSON v0.21.3  
⌅ [98e50ef6] JuliaFormatter v0.13.7  
[aa1ae85d] JuliaInterpreter v0.9.15  
[e5e0dc1b] Juno v0.8.4  
[7c4cb9fa] LNR v0.2.1  
[b964fa9f] LaTeXStrings v1.3.0  
[23fbe1c1] Latexify v0.15.17  
[50d2b5c4] Lazy v0.15.1  
⌅ [1d6d02ad] LeftChildRightSiblingTrees v0.1.3  
[2ab3a3ac] LogExpFunctions v0.3.18  
[1914dd2f] MacroTools v0.5.10  
[739be429] MbedTLS v1.1.6  
[442fdcdd] Measures v0.3.1  
[e89f7d12] Media v0.5.0  
[e1d29d7a] Missings v1.0.2  
[77ba4419] NaNMath v1.0.1  
[510215fc] Observables v0.5.2  
[bac558e1] OrderedCollections v1.4.1  
[69de0a69] Parsers v2.4.0  
[fa939f87] Pidfile v1.3.0  
[b98c9c47] Pipe v1.3.0  
[ccf2f8ad] PlotThemes v3.0.0  
[995b91a9] PlotUtils v1.3.1  
[91a5bcdd] Plots v1.35.2  
[21216c6a] Preferences v1.3.0  
[3cdcf5f2] RecipesBase v1.3.0  
[01d81517] RecipesPipeline v0.6.6  
[189a3867] Reexport v1.2.2  
[05181044] RelocatableFolders v1.0.0  
[ae029012] Requires v1.3.0  
[6c6a2e73] Scratch v1.1.1  
[992d4aef] Showoff v1.0.3  
[66db9d55] SnoopPrecompile v1.0.1  
[b85f4697] SoftGlobalScope v1.1.0  
[a2af1166] SortingAlgorithms v1.0.1  
[276daf66] SpecialFunctions v2.1.7  
[82ae8749] StatsAPI v1.5.0  
[2913bbd2] StatsBase v0.33.21  
⌅ [88034a9c] StringDistances v0.10.0  
[62fd8b95] TensorCore v0.1.1  
⌅ [0796e94c] Tokenize v0.5.21  
[a2a6695c] TreeViews v0.3.0  
[30578b45] URIParser v0.4.1  
[5c2747f8] URIs v1.4.0  
[1cfade01] UnicodeFun v0.4.1  
[41fe7b60] Unzip v0.2.0  
[81def892] VersionParsing v1.3.0  
[0f1e0344] WebIO v0.8.18  
[104b5d7c] WebSockets v1.5.9  
[cc8bc4a8] Widgets v0.6.6  
[c2297ded] ZMQ v1.2.1  
[6e34b625] Bzip2\_jll v1.0.8+0  
[83423d85] Cairo\_jll v1.16.1+1  
[2e619515] Expat\_jll v2.4.8+0  
[b22a6f82] FFMPEG\_jll v4.4.2+2  
[a3f928ae] Fontconfig\_jll v2.13.93+0  
[d7e528f0] FreeType2\_jll v2.10.4+0  
[559328eb] FriBidi\_jll v1.0.10+0  
[0656b61e] GLFW\_jll v3.3.8+0  
[d2c73de3] GR\_jll v0.69.1+0  
[78b55507] Gettext\_jll v0.21.0+0  
[7746bdde] Glib\_jll v2.74.0+1  
[3b182d85] Graphite2\_jll v1.3.14+0  
[2e76f6c2] HarfBuzz\_jll v2.8.1+1  
[aacddb02] JpegTurbo\_jll v2.1.2+0  
[c1c5ebd0] LAME\_jll v3.100.1+0  
[88015f11] LERC\_jll v3.0.0+1  
[dd4b983a] LZO\_jll v2.10.1+0  
[e9f186c6] Libffi\_jll v3.2.2+1  
[d4300ac3] Libgcrypt\_jll v1.8.7+0  
[7e76a0d4] Libglvnd\_jll v1.3.0+3  
[7add5ba3] Libgpg\_error\_jll v1.42.0+0  
[94ce4f54] Libiconv\_jll v1.16.1+1  
[4b2f31a3] Libmount\_jll v2.35.0+0  
[89763e89] Libtiff\_jll v4.4.0+0  
[38a345b3] Libuuid\_jll v2.36.0+0  
[e7412a2a] Ogg\_jll v1.3.5+1  
[458c3c95] OpenSSL\_jll v1.1.17+0  
[efe28fd5] OpenSpecFun\_jll v0.5.5+0  
[91d4177d] Opus\_jll v1.3.2+0  
[30392449] Pixman\_jll v0.40.1+0  
[ea2cea3b] Qt5Base\_jll v5.15.3+1  
[a2964d1f] Wayland\_jll v1.19.0+0  
[2381bf8a] Wayland\_protocols\_jll v1.25.0+0  
[02c8fc9c] XML2\_jll v2.9.14+0  
[aed1982a] XSLT\_jll v1.1.34+0  
[4f6342f7] Xorg\_libX11\_jll v1.6.9+4  
[0c0b7dd1] Xorg\_libXau\_jll v1.0.9+4  
[935fb764] Xorg\_libXcursor\_jll v1.2.0+4  
[a3789734] Xorg\_libXdmcp\_jll v1.1.3+4  
[1082639a] Xorg\_libXext\_jll v1.3.4+4  
[d091e8ba] Xorg\_libXfixes\_jll v5.0.3+4  
[a51aa0fd] Xorg\_libXi\_jll v1.7.10+4  
[d1454406] Xorg\_libXinerama\_jll v1.1.4+4  
[ec84b674] Xorg\_libXrandr\_jll v1.5.2+4  
[ea2f1a96] Xorg\_libXrender\_jll v0.9.10+4  
[14d82f49] Xorg\_libpthread\_stubs\_jll v0.1.0+3  
[c7cfdc94] Xorg\_libxcb\_jll v1.13.0+3  
[cc61e674] Xorg\_libxkbfile\_jll v1.1.0+4  
[12413925] Xorg\_xcb\_util\_image\_jll v0.4.0+1  
[2def613f] Xorg\_xcb\_util\_jll v0.4.0+1  
[975044d2] Xorg\_xcb\_util\_keysyms\_jll v0.4.0+1  
[0d47668e] Xorg\_xcb\_util\_renderutil\_jll v0.3.9+1  
[c22f9ab0] Xorg\_xcb\_util\_wm\_jll v0.4.1+1  
[35661453] Xorg\_xkbcomp\_jll v1.4.2+4  
[33bec58e] Xorg\_xkeyboard\_config\_jll v2.27.0+4  
[c5fb5394] Xorg\_xtrans\_jll v1.4.0+3  
[8f1865be] ZeroMQ\_jll v4.3.4+0  
[3161d3a3] Zstd\_jll v1.5.2+0  
⌅ [214eeab7] fzf\_jll v0.29.0+0  
[a4ae2306] libaom\_jll v3.4.0+0  
[0ac62f75] libass\_jll v0.15.1+0  
[f638f0a6] libfdk\_aac\_jll v2.0.2+0  
[b53b4c65] libpng\_jll v1.6.38+0  
[a9144af2] libsodium\_jll v1.0.20+0  
[f27f6e37] libvorbis\_jll v1.3.7+1  
[1270edf5] x264\_jll v2021.5.5+0  
[dfaa095f] x265\_jll v3.5.0+0  
[d8fb68d0] xkbcommon\_jll v1.4.1+0  
[0dad84c5] ArgTools v1.1.1  
[56f22d72] Artifacts  
[2a0f44e3] Base64  
[ade2ca70] Dates  
[8bb1440f] DelimitedFiles  
[8ba89e20] Distributed  
[f43a241f] Downloads v1.6.0  
[7b1f6079] FileWatching  
[b77e0a4c] InteractiveUtils  
[b27032c2] LibCURL v0.6.3  
[76f85450] LibGit2  
[8f399da3] Libdl  
[37e2e46d] LinearAlgebra  
[56ddb016] Logging  
[d6f4376e] Markdown  
[a63ad114] Mmap  
[ca575930] NetworkOptions v1.2.0  
[44cfe95a] Pkg v1.8.0  
[de0858da] Printf  
[9abbd945] Profile  
[3fa0cd96] REPL  
[9a3f8284] Random  
[ea8e919c] SHA v0.7.0  
[9e88b42a] Serialization  
[1a1011a3] SharedArrays  
[6462fe0b] Sockets  
[2f01184e] SparseArrays  
[10745b16] Statistics  
[fa267f1f] TOML v1.0.0  
[a4e569a6] Tar v1.10.1  
[8dfed614] Test  
[cf7118a7] UUIDs  
[4ec0a83e] Unicode  
[e66e0078] CompilerSupportLibraries\_jll v0.5.2+0  
[deac9b47] LibCURL\_jll v7.84.0+0  
[29816b5a] LibSSH2\_jll v1.10.2+0  
[c8ffd9c3] MbedTLS\_jll v2.28.0+0  
[14a3606d] MozillaCACerts\_jll v2022.2.1  
[4536629a] OpenBLAS\_jll v0.3.20+0  
[05823500] OpenLibm\_jll v0.8.1+0  
[efcefdf7] PCRE2\_jll v10.40.0+0  
[83775a58] Zlib\_jll v1.2.12+3  
[8e850b90] libblastrampoline\_jll v5.1.1+0  
[8e850ede] nghttp2\_jll v1.48.0+0  
[3f19e933] p7zip\_jll v17.4.0+0  
Info Packages marked with ⌃ and ⌅ have new versions available, but those with ⌅ are restricted by compatibility constraints from upgrading. To see why use `status --outdated -m`

I also tried :

> [@awasserman](#):
>
> ```julia
> using Pkg
> Pkg.activate(temp=true)
> Pkg.add("Plots")
> using Plots
> 
> ```

But I get the same error as before.

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**Author:** ![sjkelly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sjkelly/32/9280_2.png) [@sjkelly](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sjkelly)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/4 "2022-10-07T18:25:38Z")

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`0.69.4` is the latest release for GR. You should try to `Pkg.update()` as there have been some bug fixes.

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**Author:** ![Matteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Matteo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matteo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/5 "2022-10-07T18:34:22Z")

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if I do that I get:

julia\> Pkg.update()  
Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General.toml`  
No Changes to `/private/var/folders/zw/gq5r1ghj2jb57rmp8k58cz3c0000gn/T/jl_b4CrkG/Project.toml`  
No Changes to `/private/var/folders/zw/gq5r1ghj2jb57rmp8k58cz3c0000gn/T/jl_b4CrkG/Manifest.toml`

Which is strange because it seems I already have all the latest versions, as it says “no changes”. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong here.

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**Author:** ![sjkelly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sjkelly/32/9280_2.png) [@sjkelly](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sjkelly)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/6 "2022-10-07T18:56:19Z")

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You can see why things are held back by `status --outdated -m` in Pkg mode in the REPL.

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**Author:** ![Matteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Matteo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matteo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/7 "2022-10-07T18:59:10Z")

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> status --outdated -m

gives me:

```julia
(jl_b4CrkG) pkg> status --outdated -m 
Status `/private/var/folders/zw/gq5r1ghj2jb57rmp8k58cz3c0000gn/T/jl_b4CrkG/Manifest.toml`
⌅ [214eeab7] fzf_jll v0.29.0+0 (<v0.30.0+0): JLFzf

```

But I don’t really know what it means…

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**Author:** ![t-bltg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/t-bltg/32/25526_2.png) [@t-bltg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/t-bltg)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/8 "2022-10-07T19:04:59Z")

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Weird, `GR` should update itself to `0.69.4`. I can tag a new `Plots` patch if needed.

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**Author:** ![Matteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Matteo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matteo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/9 "2022-10-07T19:12:15Z")

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I’m open to different solutions. Though It would be nice to begin able to use the package Plots… The strange thing is that it was working before and then for some reason it started giving me that error. I also tried to uninstall Julia and Atom and install them again. But nothing seems to work.

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**Author:** ![t-bltg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/t-bltg/32/25526_2.png) [@t-bltg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/t-bltg)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/10 "2022-10-07T19:23:46Z")

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After `Pkg.update()`, can you show again `pkg> status -m Plots GR` ?

You can try so set the environment variable `JULIA_PKG_SERVER` to force julia to use the github registry.

```julia
$ JULIA_PKG_SERVER='' julia
julia> ]
pkg> update

```

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**Author:** ![Matteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Matteo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matteo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/11 "2022-10-07T19:34:44Z")

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I did

```julia
Pkg.update()

```

and then

> [@t-bltg](#):
>
> `status -m Plots GR`

which gives me:

```julia
(jl_b4CrkG) pkg> status -m Plots GR 
Status `/private/var/folders/zw/gq5r1ghj2jb57rmp8k58cz3c0000gn/T/jl_b4CrkG/Manifest.toml`
  [28b8d3ca] GR v0.69.4
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.35.2

```

But doing

```julia
$ JULIA_PKG_SERVER='' julia
julia> ]
pkg> update

```

gives me a syntax error. Do I have to run that in Julia in the REPL?

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**Author:** ![t-bltg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/t-bltg/32/25526_2.png) [@t-bltg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/t-bltg)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/12 "2022-10-07T19:35:40Z")

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This is what I wanted to see:

```julia
  [28b8d3ca] GR v0.69.4
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.35.2

```

Now type `julia> using Plots`, it should work.

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**Author:** ![Matteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Matteo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matteo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/13 "2022-10-07T19:37:07Z")

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Unfortunately it doesn’t. Same error as before…

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**Author:** ![t-bltg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/t-bltg/32/25526_2.png) [@t-bltg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/t-bltg)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/14 "2022-10-07T19:38:01Z")

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Can you delete `~/.julia/compiled` and try again ?

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**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/15 "2022-10-07T19:42:44Z")

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Still not working…

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Unfortunately, the error message above is not helpful.  
Does `using Pkg; Pkg.precompile()` show the same error ?

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**Author:** ![Matteo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Matteo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Matteo)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/17 "2022-10-07T19:48:46Z")

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yes it gives:

```julia
julia> using Pkg; Pkg.precompile()
Precompiling project...
  ✗ GR_jll
  ✗ Plots
  0 dependencies successfully precompiled in 12 seconds. 132 already precompiled.

ERROR: The following 1 direct dependency failed to precompile:

Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]

Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to /Users/matteomassaro/.julia/compiled/v1.8/Plots/jl_MeTmZV.
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: UndefVarError: GR_jll not defined
Stacktrace:
  [1] __init__ ()
    @ GR.GRPreferences ~/.julia/packages/GR/eEMaG/src/preferences.jl:40
  [2] _include_from_serialized(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, depmods::Vector{Any})
    @ Base ./loading.jl:831
  [3] _require_search_from_serialized(pkg::Base.PkgId, sourcepath::String, build_id::UInt64)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1039
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1315
  [5] _require_prelocked(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1200
  [6] macro expansion
    @ ./loading.jl:1180 [inlined]
  [7] macro expansion
    @ ./lock.jl:223 [inlined]
  [8] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1144
  [9] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base ./Base.jl:419
 [10] include(x::String)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/CUQan/src/Plots.jl:1
 [11] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/CUQan/src/Plots.jl:201
 [12] include
    @ ./Base.jl:419 [inlined]
 [13] include_package_for_output(pkg::Base.PkgId, input::String, depot_path::Vector{String}, dl_load_path::Vector{String}, load_path::Vector{String}, concrete_deps::Vector{Pair{Base.PkgId, UInt64}}, source::Nothing)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1554
 [14] top-level scope
    @ stdin:1
during initialization of module GRPreferences
in expression starting at /Users/matteomassaro/.julia/packages/Plots/CUQan/src/backends/gr.jl:3
in expression starting at /Users/matteomassaro/.julia/packages/Plots/CUQan/src/Plots.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:1
Stacktrace:
 [1] pkgerror(msg::String)
   @ Pkg.Types /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/Types.jl:67
 [2] precompile(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context, pkgs::Vector{String}; internal_call::Bool, strict::Bool, warn_loaded::Bool, already_instantiated::Bool, kwargs::Base.Pairs{Symbol, Union{}, Tuple{}, NamedTuple{(), Tuple{}}})
   @ Pkg.API /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/API.jl:1432
 [3] precompile
   @ /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/API.jl:1063 [inlined]
 [4] #precompile#225
   @ /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/API.jl:1062 [inlined]
 [5] precompile (repeats 2 times)
   @ /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/API.jl:1062 [inlined]
 [6] top-level scope
   @ none:1

```

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**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/18 "2022-10-07T19:55:00Z")

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Can you restart julia, then type:

```julia
julia> ENV["JULIA_DEBUG"] = "GR";
julia> using Pkg; Pkg.precompile()

```

You should see the debug message as in [Cannot Precompile Plots.jl due to GR - #7 by t-bltg](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-precompile-plots-jl-due-to-gr/88230/7).

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**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/19 "2022-10-07T19:57:45Z")

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How did you install Julia? One thing you could try is ignoring your old julia configuration and package files and trying again. You could do this by starting your Julia REPL like this

```bash
JULIA_DEPOT_PATH="$HOME/tmp/.julia" julia

```

(assuming that the `$HOME/tmp/.julia` directory is not currently used for anything else)

Then try a fresh install of Plots.

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**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-fails-to-precompile-plots/88411/20 "2022-10-07T20:01:17Z")

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This :

> [@t-bltg](#):
>
> ```julia
> julia> ENV["JULIA_DEBUG"] = "GR";
> julia> using Pkg; Pkg.precompile()
> 
> ```

gives me as output:

```julia

julia> ENV["JULIA_DEBUG"] = "GR";

julia> using Pkg; Pkg.precompile()
Precompiling project...
  ✗ GR_jll
  ✓ Atom
  ✗ Plots
  17 dependencies successfully precompiled in 64 seconds. 150 already precompiled.
  1 dependency precompiled but a different version is currently loaded. Restart julia to access the new version

ERROR: The following 1 direct dependency failed to precompile:

Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]

Failed to precompile Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80] to /Users/matteomassaro/.julia/compiled/v1.8/Plots/jl_vsOjN9.
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: UndefVarError: GR_jll not defined
Stacktrace:
  [1] __init__ ()
    @ GR.GRPreferences ~/.julia/packages/GR/Wz6ek/src/preferences.jl:40
  [2] _include_from_serialized(pkg::Base.PkgId, path::String, depmods::Vector{Any})
    @ Base ./loading.jl:831
  [3] _require_search_from_serialized(pkg::Base.PkgId, sourcepath::String, build_id::UInt64)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1039
  [4] _require(pkg::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1315
  [5] _require_prelocked(uuidkey::Base.PkgId)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1200
  [6] macro expansion
    @ ./loading.jl:1180 [inlined]
  [7] macro expansion
    @ ./lock.jl:223 [inlined]
  [8] require(into::Module, mod::Symbol)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1144
  [9] include(mod::Module, _path::String)
    @ Base ./Base.jl:419
 [10] include(x::String)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/CUQan/src/Plots.jl:1
 [11] top-level scope
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/CUQan/src/Plots.jl:201
 [12] include
    @ ./Base.jl:419 [inlined]
 [13] include_package_for_output(pkg::Base.PkgId, input::String, depot_path::Vector{String}, dl_load_path::Vector{String}, load_path::Vector{String}, concrete_deps::Vector{Pair{Base.PkgId, UInt64}}, source::Nothing)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1554
 [14] top-level scope
    @ stdin:1
during initialization of module GRPreferences
in expression starting at /Users/matteomassaro/.julia/packages/Plots/CUQan/src/backends/gr.jl:3
in expression starting at /Users/matteomassaro/.julia/packages/Plots/CUQan/src/Plots.jl:1
in expression starting at stdin:1
Stacktrace:
 [1] pkgerror(msg::String)
   @ Pkg.Types /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/Types.jl:67
 [2] precompile(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context, pkgs::Vector{String}; internal_call::Bool, strict::Bool, warn_loaded::Bool, already_instantiated::Bool, kwargs::Base.Pairs{Symbol, Union{}, Tuple{}, NamedTuple{(), Tuple{}}})
   @ Pkg.API /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/API.jl:1432
 [3] precompile
   @ /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/API.jl:1063 [inlined]
 [4] #precompile#225
   @ /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/API.jl:1062 [inlined]
 [5] precompile (repeats 2 times)
   @ /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Pkg/src/API.jl:1062 [inlined]
 [6] top-level scope
   @ none:1

```

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