# Juliaup not working

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** juliaup\
**Created:** [December 2, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158 "2022-12-02T20:03:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![mb96](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mb96/32/45786_2.png) [@mb96](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mb96)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158/1 "2022-12-02T20:03:43Z")

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Hi everyone,

I installed juliaup yesterday on my Mac and it worked fine. However, today I am having trouble initializing the desired release.

If I go to my terminal and type juliaup status I get:

 ![Screenshot 2022-12-02 at 3.02.08 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/4/5492932aa75e81838b31b2c56130f3348fdd5d2f.png)

However, if I type julia +release~x64 I get the following error:

 ![Screenshot 2022-12-02 at 3.02.34 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/3/33f36e0fb3e67044f65f9b952fdc7ec3e78ed521.png)

Does anyone know what am I doing wrong?

Thanks a lot,  
Miguel.

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**Author:** ![aramirezreyes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aramirezreyes/32/42573_2.png) [@aramirezreyes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aramirezreyes)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158/2 "2022-12-02T21:15:06Z")

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I am not a juliaup user but could it be that you are calling a previous installation of julia? what does `type julia` return in the shell?

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**Author:** ![mb96](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mb96/32/45786_2.png) [@mb96](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mb96)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158/3 "2022-12-02T21:21:33Z")

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Hi,

_type julia_ in the terminal returns:  
 ![Screenshot 2022-12-02 at 4.20.43 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/6/463c4f673c7ca0838805ad818d81156bd9e6a85a.png)

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**Author:** ![aramirezreyes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aramirezreyes/32/42573_2.png) [@aramirezreyes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aramirezreyes)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158/4 "2022-12-02T21:23:41Z")

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Yeah to me it sounds like that one is conflicting. By any chance you had installed julia using homebrew or some other method? Can you try and uninstall that one?

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**Author:** ![mb96](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mb96/32/45786_2.png) [@mb96](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mb96)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158/5 "2022-12-02T21:28:11Z")

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No I haven’t. What puzzles me is that it was working yesterday but not today and nothing new has been installed today.

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158/7 "2022-12-02T22:08:13Z")

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It somehow starts Julia with a file parameter =\> julia tries to open a julia script file called +release~x64 instead of running the specified version of julia. Seems to be some kind of a bug.  
Perhaps you can try to add it again with

```julia
juliaup add release~x64

```

afterwards in the same shell try again

```julia
julia +release~x64

```

to see if there is something which gets lost when restarting the system. I can’t check because I don’t have a Mac. pinging @davidanthoff

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliaup-not-working/91158/8 "2022-12-06T17:02:22Z")

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This definitely looks like there is a non-Juliaup `julia` on the `PATH` (namely in `/usr/local/bin/julia`) and that is being called when you just type `julia` instead of the `julia` that comes with Juliaup. You can try `type juliaup`, see where that is installed and in that same folder there should also be a `julia`, and that is the one that needs to launch.