# LoadError: Failed to precompile Distributions

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/loaderror-failed-to-precompile-distributions/115917>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [June 20, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/loaderror-failed-to-precompile-distributions/115917 "2024-06-20T12:02:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![markushhh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@markushhh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/markushhh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/loaderror-failed-to-precompile-distributions/115917/1 "2024-06-20T12:02:54Z")

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Can someone point me into the right direction how to solve the error?

```julia
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile Distributions [31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f] to "/var/home/user/.julia/compiled/v1.10/Distributions/jl_iIDhMS".

```

then StatsFuns fails

```julia
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile StatsFuns [4c63d2b9-4356-54db-8cca-17b64c39e42c] to "/var/home/laptop/.julia/compiled/v1.10/StatsFuns/jl_vTc2qL".
Stacktrace:

```

using StatsFuns yields

```julia
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library "/var/home/user/.julia/artifacts/abf4b5086b4eb867021118c85b2cc11a15b764a9/lib/libopenspecfun.so"
libquadmath.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Stacktrace:

```

system: fedora silverblue 40  
julia v1.10.4 installed with nix

recompiling doesn’t solve the problem

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**Author:** ![markushhh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@markushhh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/markushhh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/loaderror-failed-to-precompile-distributions/115917/2 "2024-06-20T14:40:54Z")

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While it doesn’t solve the general problem, it solves my issue in not being able to use many packages.  
I downgraded to julia-lts v1.6.7

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/loaderror-failed-to-precompile-distributions/115917/3 "2024-06-20T14:57:40Z")

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> [@markushhh](#):
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> julia v1.10.4 installed with nix

Can you try instead with the [official binaries](https://julialang.org/downloads/)?

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**Author:** ![markushhh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@markushhh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/markushhh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/loaderror-failed-to-precompile-distributions/115917/4 "2024-06-20T18:02:19Z")

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that works. thank you!