New julia 1.7 install with jill: how transfer julia 1.6 packages (macos)

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Deprecation warnings from Atom with v1.7

I have a Intel Macbook Pro This is what I did to upgrade from 1.6.4 to 1.7 Step 1: download the dmg file from website Step 2: shutdown all instances of Julia (including atom, IJulia, Pluto) Step 2.5: Open the dmg file by double clicking on it and Install the Julia 1.7 by dragging the julia icon to the Application Icon. Don’t forget to unmount the dmg file afterwards. Step 3: Run the following on the bash shell command prompt in Terminal (note: the dollar sign $ is just the bash commandline …

cd ~/.julia
cd environments/
cp -rp v1.6/ v1.7