# Plots, InitError: UndefVarError: GR\_jll not defined

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**Category:** General Usage\
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**Created:** [August 3, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-initerror-undefvarerror-gr-jll-not-defined/102448 "2023-08-03T13:43:16Z")\
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@t-bltg @jheinen I believe there may be some room for improvement here. I cannot recall why there is a `try`-`catch` there to begin with.

Since we are not loading any librarys on `import GR_jll`, I am failing to imagine how `import GR_jll` can fail.

> <https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/blob/748b902ac4ef455501e01289b91ba7cc3188d04a/G/GR/build_tarballs.jl#L81-L84>

Perhaps the `try` here is just obsolute and we can remove it now?

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