# Julia v1.0 Install notes

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-0-install-notes/13583>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-0-install-notes/13583 "2018-08-16T18:44:38Z")\
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The problem is, to be specific, that the Plots “pyplot” backend is not just a front-end to the PyPlot package - it mostly bypasses PyPlot and calls direcly into matplotlib via PyCall (and LaTeXStrings), which usually was not a problem, because those were loaded as dependencies of PyPlot.

On 1.0, though, (Pkg3 to be exact) you can’t `import` a package that was installed as a dependency - you can only `import` packages you’ve explicitly installed. That changes the installation procedure - we’ve updated the error message on the newest release of Plots ([https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/1656/files](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/1656/files)) but it may not be shown appropriately.

So it’s not Requires-related.

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