Looking for feedback from users that currently can't install Juliaup from the Windows Store

[rafael.guerra]

@tsela

Installed didn’t necessarily mean usable. Restrictions to the Windows Store cascade to Winget itself. If Juliaup can’t be installed from one, it won’t be installable from the other.

False in my case.

[tsela]

Ah, okay. I just know it’s true in mine. I guess it depends on your corporate settings…

[BambOoxX]

@davidanthoff

But I think winget is actually installed on all Windows 10 and 11 versions now.

I think the security at my compagny is quite tight and winget is not available…

[krynju]

EDIT: DO NOT USE the instructions from this reply.
If you hit the same issue the location of the julia.exe and juliaup.exe is supposed to be in C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps, so add this to your PATH if it isn’t there and everything should work afterwards (by work I mean you can use the julia/juliaup command from the terminal)

I was just trying to install it on windows and everything went fine, but juliaup and julia were not added to PATH
I tried to figure out where they are and found them in a folder with no access to it, so had to follow this guide with the exception that I set my user as the owner of the directory to even look inside

Added these two path entries and it works now, but I think this was supposed to be easier than this, so I’m documenting my steps here

[davidanthoff]

@krynju I would not add those folders to the PATH, that is not how Windows Store installed software works and I think you’ll run into lots of downstream problems with that.

Can you check whether the folder ~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps has one julia.exe and one juliaup.exe file in it, each should be a zero-size file. And can you also check whether this folder is on your PATH? That is how it is supposed to be.

[krynju]

I found the files in that path and it to PATH and now it works! Thanks!

For anyone looking for these files in that path - it doesn’t show up in explorer, you need to explicitly cd into that path to open explorer in ~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

As for the root cause I can 100% confirm the WindowsApps path wasn’t in my PATH before or wasn’t added during install. This is a pretty old install of Windows 10 Pro if that gives any clues

[davidanthoff]

So in general ~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps should be always on the PATH, i.e. that is a standard Windows thing. My best guess is that some other program in the past might have removed it or something like that.