# Julia no registries found

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-registries-found/61554>\
**Category:** Package Management\
**Created:** [May 21, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-registries-found/61554 "2021-05-21T03:54:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Babou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/babou/32/22003_2.png) [@Babou](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Babou)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-registries-found/61554/1 "2021-05-21T03:54:55Z")

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So today I was trying to install a package and my julia was tking forever, over 10 miuntes so I exited.  
I am on a windows machine, I tried follwoing the advice on this trhead: [Very slow "Updating registry at 'C:\Users\me\.julia\registries\General'"](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/very-slow-updating-registry-at-c-users-me-julia-registries-general/51614)

Specficially:

```julia
pkg> registry rm General

julia> ENV["JULIA_PKG_SERVER"] = ""

pkg> registry add General

```

but when I run the following:

```julia
(@v1.5) pkg> registry st
Registry Status 
  (no registries found)

```

So I tried:

```julia
(@v1.5) pkg> registry up General
registry `General` not found.

(@v1.5) pkg> registry up

(@v1.5) pkg> registry st
Registry Status 
  (no registries found)

```

What is going on? Should I just reinstall?