# Juliaup cannot find Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-cannot-find-julia/137462>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** juliaup\
**Created:** [June 6, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-cannot-find-julia/137462 "2026-06-06T01:20:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2026, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-cannot-find-julia/137462/6 "2026-06-06T09:32:46Z")

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run “juliaup self update” - just because haven’t done it for long time. Now what I got:

```julia-auto
    Checking for new Julia versions
Checking for self-updates
Found new version 1.20.4 on channel release.
Juliaup configuration is locked by another process, waiting for it to unlock.

```

I’m on Mac, and actually it had been recently restarted and I haven’t done anything “julian” since.

_Update:_ I’ve Ctrl/C the process after a while, and did other things (also running Julia). Now I wanted to see which `juliaup` version I actually have:

```julia-auto
eben60@Mac ~ % juliaup --version
Juliaup 1.20.4

```

That is, update has been presumably performed, but then stalled at clean-up or whatever.

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