# Julia US-East servers down? Here is how to update your packages

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-us-east-servers-down-here-is-how-to-update-your-packages/52496
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** package
**Created:** [December 28, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-us-east-servers-down-here-is-how-to-update-your-packages/52496 "2020-12-28T07:13:52Z")
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### Author: ![dannofthursday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dannofthursday/32/20596_2.png) [@dannofthursday](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dannofthursday)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-us-east-servers-down-here-is-how-to-update-your-packages/52496/1 "2020-12-28T07:13:52Z")

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Newish Julia user. Experiencing the following issue when trying to update packages:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/0/901cb0d80654fdda485247ec49a68271a4046060.png)

Per this [thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapro1-5-0-could-not-download-https-pkg-juliahub-com-registries/44811/19), the environment variable, **JULIA\_PKG\_SERVER** , needs to be changed. Here is what I did:

Run

```julia
julia> ENV["JULIA_PKG_SERVER"] = "us-west.pkg.julialang.org"

```

to set the JULIA\_PKG\_SERVER environment variable.

```julia
Then update your packages:
julia> using Pkg
julia> Pkg.update()

```

Just a general PSA.